Announcement 📣 
Prof Nicholas Procter has been re-elected by his peers as Australia’s national representative to the International Association for Suicide Prevention until 2027. IASP is dedicated to preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour and to alleviating its effects.

I am beyond THRILLED to have been asked to join the 4MentalHealth Expert Reference Group!

An area that means a great deal to me both professionally & personally, and I feel incredibly privileged to have this opportunity to work with you all!

#MentalHealth #SuicidePrevention

“I want to see it through your eyes”.
Thankful, appreciative to spend quality time today with lived experience workers and frontline clinicians. Today we discussed person centred mental health care, trauma informed practice, safety planning and crisis stabilisation.

Chris G RNMH Peter ILVES Jess Read ConnectingwithPeople Dr Clare Dickens MBE FRSA SFHEA Wonderful to have you join the 4MH team and thanks Dr Clare Dickens MBE FRSA SFHEA for introducing you. You will be a fabulous trainer and huge thanks Peter ILVES and Jess Read and whole 4MentalHealth team for delivering superb TTTs and everything they do behind the scenes for new trainers

Incredibly grateful for the support from trainers Peter ILVES, Gary & Jess Read but also to Dr Alys Cole-King and others at ConnectingwithPeople for allowing me to be involved ❤️. It’s pertinent I thank Clare Dickens MBE FRSA SFHEA for introducing me to 4MH whilst I was a student❤️.

Christmas can be really hard
If you support someone who’s struggling - now is a good time to coproduce a #SafetyPlan to help
#SAFETool for profs
StayingSafe.net for everyone
Help them know how to stay safer
Wellbeing South Somerset podcast has useful info somersetemotionalwellbeing.castos.com/episodes/safet…

Huge thanks to Debbie Wint and Dr Peter Bagshaw and David R J Sealey and to my fab 4MentalHealth colleagues Jess Read and Peter ILVES 🙏🏼

Great to talk about Connecting with People training and #SAFETool during ‘Best practice in supporting people with suicidal and self-harm ideation’ Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Webinar yesterday. Fab hosting by Ian Davidson and great talks from Sarah Anderson of The Listening Place and Mike Caulfield 🙏🏼

Such a vital commentary
Thank you
An essential foundation to a human, compassionate and quality health service are those who work in it.

Their physical, spiritual, social and mental health is paramount

Dr Alys Cole-King ConnectingwithPeople

stayingaafe.net

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It can be so powerful to share.

If you are struggling, you aren’t alone. Please do reach out and join a group of people who are here to support you in whatever you are going through.

Our weekly support group will be running every Wednesday, including 27th December, on Zoom from…

Dr Alys Cole-King 100% True One of the paradoxes of Suicidal Thinking & fear for personal safety.
Important to complete a #SafetyPlan 2 have “safety belt” 4 support when Suicidal or emotional escalation! Use StayingSafe.net or PAPYRUS <35 yrs
Simon Trickett 💙 Karen May Better Health in Worcestershire

It’s possible to think life isn’t worth living
AND
Simultaneously be so fearful for your own safety that you seek support from others to stay alive

#SuicidePrevention

kerrie Togher Rebecca Bevington Kate Wales Tânia Rodrigues, Clin Psych Dr Alys Cole-King Peter ILVES

This is a vital petition from Paul Vittles and The Jordan Legacy

Save a life today
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Dr Alys Cole-King

2 quick actions, just 2-3 mins of your time, could help save 1000s of lives.

1) Please sign this The Jordan Legacy petition for the measures we need to reduce the UK suicide numbers, towards zero:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6409…

2) Repost & urge others to sign it.

#SuicidePrevention

Had the best two days with Peter ILVES & primary care colleagues talking all things suicide mitigation.

Thank you from the whole 4MentalHealth team to everyone that joined us 🙏🏻🌟

Fabulous #IASPPIRAN2023 presentation ⁦Rory O'Connor⁩ discussing #SuicidePrevention priorities. Link ⬇️
Gone Too Soon: priorities for action to prevent premature mortality associated with mental illness and mental distress ⁦The Lancet Psychiatry⁩ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37182526/

Fabulous Rory O'Connor emphasises importance of compassion in #SuicidePrevention
Challenge now is to ensure this becomes reality. First step is self-compassion and enough staff with sufficient resources and support to enable them to be compassionate to others #IASPPIRAN2023

Fabulous to chat the wonderful Prof Diego de Leo, founder of #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
#IASPPIRAN2023

Great to hear Prof Matthew Large discussing the process of risk assessment and the fallacy of risk prediction. Couldn’t agree more!
My view is that we need to assess to understand and intervene not to predict. Interested in what others think? #IASPPIRAN2023