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New Suicide Prevention Campaign and Website for Scotland
Created: 11/04/2025
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
Suicide Prevention Scotland have launched a new suicide prevention campaign.
The campaign is entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide, professional and practice experience, and academic insight. It features the voices of four people with lived and living experience of suicide, each of whom share their own deeply personal experiences. The main theme of the campaign is to normalise the idea of having a conversation about suicide and to give people the confidence to ask directly about suicide.
In addition to the campaign, the brand-new website SuicidePrevention.scot has also launched.
The website provides information and key links to a range of centralised resources to support people experiencing thoughts of suicide, those who are worried for someone else, or for those who have been bereaved by suicide.
Suicide Prevention Scotland have launched new social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, in addition to their existing channels on X, YouTube, Medium, and Podbean.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, please reach out for help, speak to someone you trust or call one of these helplines:
- Samaritans — 116 123 or use the online chat at samaritans.org
- Breathing Space — 0800 83 85 87
- NHS 24 mental health hub — 111
- PAPYRUS HOPELINE247 – 0800 068 4141 or text 88247
If you are ever in immediate danger or have the means to cause yourself harm you should dial 999 and request an ambulance.
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