Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council, along with local partners including Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), are launching a new Self Harm and Suicide Prevention Strategy. Partners have also awarded £96,000 worth of small grants that will enable community groups to support the mental wellbeing of their local residents.
The Strategy is the result of collaborative work across local organisations and with people with lived experience of suicidality and bereavement by suicide. People with lived experience have helped to shape the vision and ambitions of the Strategy and have shared their own personal stories to continue to inspire people to do what they can to help prevent suicide in the future.
Local people have also developed a Suicide Prevention Charter setting out the values and principles which matter to them and what organisations should aspire to. A message of hope underpins the Charter and serves as a reminder that recovery is possible.