Safe Connections

Safe Connections is a partnership approach to providing local support for people facing suicide in North East London. If you live or you are a professional working in the North East London Boroughs and are concerned about yourself, have been recently bereaved by suicide, or need to access training you can access a range of services. The service is provided by Mind Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge.

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Our work in suicide prevention

We are currently developing a series of culturally aware and appropriate workshops to try to increase education and awareness around mental health and wellbeing, suicide and communal suicide prevention.

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Our current priorities

Our most important priority is always to be here to help and support when anyone needs us; to help people find ways through and beyond what distress, pain, worries or fear they are experiencing. We believe talking, exploring and appropriate support will help ease or reduce suicidal thoughts and feelings and, ultimately, deaths by suicide.

We are currently reaching out and engaging with vulnerable or isolated people, groups or communities more at risk of suicide, and trying to let them know we are here to support them whenever they need us.

We’re connecting and collaborating with local Community and Statutory providers across North East London, and sometimes further, including crisis services, to focus on supporting people not currently connected to other mental health services.

We are also trying to focus on raising awareness, building knowledge, skills and education, and starting conversations around suicide and suicide prevention across a very diverse and kaleidoscopic part of London.

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Our current challenges

We’re still a new service, so trying to let people know we are here and that we can be a safe, supportive and welcoming place for them to talk and explore is constant, ongoing work.

Gradually picking and nagging at stigma, fear and misconceptions; trying to increase awareness, acceptance and openness of mental health and wellbeing, suicide, suicidal thoughts and behaviours – on individual and communal levels, as well as culturally and systemically.

Finding appropriate and responsive services and support around us for our callers to connect with once they finish working with us; trying to find forms of support and help for all the (almost infinite) directions that suicidal thoughts can come from.

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