World Suicide Prevention Day Event
Grassroots Suicide Prevention warmly invites you to attend an evening of activities to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in Brighton & Hove this September 10th. The theme this year is Reaching Out and Saving Lives
Programme:
7 – 8.00 pm:
• Recognition Award made to YMCA Downslink Group for suicide prevention activities
• 2 minute silence to remember those loved and lost to suicide
• Celebration of Brighton & Hove’s progress towards becoming a suicide safer community
• The Stay Alive app – one year on
• How Grassroots is working with local businesses to help prevent suicide
• A personal perspective on reaching out for and receiving help with thoughts of suicide
• Guest speaker, Australian firefighter and author Tara Lal, telling her and her brother’s story – making peace with grief and suicide.
8.00 pm: short break, including a Resources Marketplace
8.15: Screening of Channel 4’s powerful film, The Stranger on the Bridge: The story of one man’s search for the stranger who stopped him jumping off Waterloo Bridge.
9.00: Panel discussion about suicide intervention with Tara Lal and local speakers with relevant experience
9.30: Close