Communities have an important role to play in suicide prevention. They can provide support to people who are vulnerable and to those who have made an attempt on their life. They can provide comfort to people who have lost someone to suicide and can also help fight stigma.
WHO’s Preventing suicide: a community engagement toolkit, released today, is a step-by-step guide for people who would like to initiate suicide prevention activities in their community. It includes advice and practical tools to help with goal setting, stakeholder mapping and development of an action plan as well as details of successful initiatives in Canada, India, Kenya, Nepal, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA.
See more:
- Suicide
- Community engagement toolkit -WHO
- The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
- World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) -WHO
- World Suicide Prevention Day 2017: Take a minute, change a life – PAHO 2017
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