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Working together to prevent suicide across Cheshire and Merseyside

This website provides professionals with a range of resources and signposting to help build individual and community resilience to improve lives and prevent people falling into crisis by tackling the risk factors for suicide.

Suicide Prevention Strategy

Our five-year Suicide Prevention Strategy aims to reduce Cheshire and Merseyside’s suicide rate.

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Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Action Plan

Our Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Action Plan draws on local experience, research and evidence, providing a multi-agency framework for action.

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Looking for professional resources?

There is a range of guidance and resources to support you to help those self-harming or thinking of taking their own lives.

Need suicide prevention training?

There are a range of local and national organisations which provide training and learning opportunities on suicide prevention and suicide bereavement.

Supporting those who have lost someone to suicide

Losing someone to suicide is not something any of us expect or are prepared for. Being bereaved by suicide can be very difficult and many may struggle to cope. We want to ensure that all those who find themselves bereaved by suicide in Cheshire and Merseyside can get the support they need.

Please find a series of tools to make it easy for you to support Suicide Prevention.

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