Connecting for Life – Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce Suicide

• Please see Suicide prevention/awareness information and training on the Connecting for Life website –

Connecting for Life, National Educations and Training Plan, 2023-2024 (hse.ie)

https://traininghub.nosp.ie

• For publications which provide practical guidance and information for policy-makers in government departments about suicide prevention and how to integrate suicide prevention into policy-making functions please see:

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/4/mental-health-services/connecting-for-life/publications/suicide-prevention-and-policy-making.html

• The Responding to a person in suicidal distress – a guidance document, aims to support staff and volunteers working in public-facing roles to interact with people who present or contact the service in distress or at risk of suicide and self-harm. The guide can be incorporated into staff induction packs or training manuals. It will inform and promote the use of standardised approaches across different settings.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/4/mental-health-services/connecting-for-life/publications/responding-to-a-person-in-suicidal-distress-a-guidance-document.html

• You may also be interested in promoting the HSE’s Social Prescribing initiative which addresses poverty, isolation and loneliness. Social prescribing offers GPs and other health professionals a means of referring people to a range of non-clinical community supports which can have significant benefits for their overall health and wellbeing.
  https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/mental-health-and-wellbeing/social-prescribing/