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# World Suicide Prevention Day 2015
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/world-suicide-prevention-day-2015/
- Published: 2015-08-11T20:56:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-08-18T19:41:09.000Z
- Description: Grassroots Suicide Prevention (GSP) will be marking World Suicide Prevention Day in Brighton & Hove with a series of activities on September 10. The theme this year is Reaching Out and Saving Lives.
- Author: Gary Hart
- Tags: Health, In The South, Grassroots Suicide Prevention, World Suicide Prevention Day

## Grassroots Suicide Prevention (GSP) will be marking World Suicide Prevention Day in Brighton & Hove with a series of activities on September 10.

![Grassroots Suicide Prevention](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/web-600181.jpg)

## **The theme this year is Reaching Out and Saving Lives and will include:**

**9.30 am – 1.00 pm:** Free suicide alertness training for community members at Valley Social Centre

Thanks to funding from Public Health Brighton & Hove, GSP will be offering 30 free places on a safeTALK (Suicide Alertness For Everyone) workshop to community members.

**Booking is essential: To learn more about the course and book a place, [click here:](http://bit.ly/WSPD2015ST?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

**7pm – 8.00 pm:** **Community Event at Otherplace at the Basement, 24 Kensington St, Brighton**

♦ 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

♦ 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:** There will be a short break, including a Resources Marketplace:

Grassroots stand will be taking pledge signatures, selling Tara’s books, and giving out suicide prevention resources. They have room for 3 or 4 other local organisations to have a stand.

**If you would like a table, email:** [chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk](mailto:chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk)

**8.15pm:** 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.

**9.00pm:** Panel discussion about suicide intervention with **Tara Lal** and local speakers with relevant experience

**9.30pm:** Close

If you would like to attend the community event, RSVP by email: [chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk](mailto:chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk)

**If you want to attend the morning’s safeTALK training,[ click here:](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safetalk-suicide-alertness-for-everyone-community-course-for-world-suicide-prevention-day-tickets-18093642572?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

To organise these events, Grassroots Suicide Prevention received funding from Public Health Brighton & Hove City Council, and acknowledge Channel 4’s support with screening *The Stranger on the Bridge*.

GSP will also be holding a public stall at Brighton Station on Saturday, September 5, and organising a Bike Train event with local partners to raise awareness and funds to help train community members.

For more information keep an eye on their [**Facebook**](https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsSP?ref=hl) and [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/GrassrootsSP?ref=scenemag.co.uk) accounts to learn more!