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Mind in North East London’s Safe Connections Suicide Prevention

Safe Connections Suicide Prevention Helpline

We are a warm and safe space to talk, explore and work through suicidal thoughts and feelings, and help you find the right directions and support that you need. 

Call us on 0300 561 0115, or email  safeconnections@mithn.org.uk and we will call you.

Events

Safe Connections Suicide Prevention Hub have developed a series of suicide prevention and mental health workshops (see flyers in Downloads). 

Each workshop is free, online and open to whoever wants to attend. They're all about an hour long, with space for questions and discussions.  

Anyone can email safeconnections@mithn.org.uk to book onto a workshop (we'll send Teams links and invites the week before each session) or for more information.  

September 19th, 1-2pm - Suicide Prevention 
Communal Suicide Prevention Workshop  
Exploring the current context of suicide, how suicidal thoughts and feelings can present and what they mean, how we can help and support, and what other help and support is available, as well as how we can try to prevent suicide as a community and as individuals. 
 
September 24th, 1-2pm - Self-Harm Awareness
Self-harm Awareness Workshop   
Exploring our own reactions to and perceptions of self-harm, what self-harm is and how it can present, why people self-harm and what it can mean, as well as how we can help and support in the immediacy and what other support exists.   
 
September 26th, 1-2pm - Self-Care and Boundaries 
Self-Care and Boundaries Workshop 
Explore the concepts of self-care and boundaries, reflect on our needs to create a personalised self-care plan, and explore and understand the impact of different social dynamics on ourselves and how we can set healthy boundaries and limits.

Please email safeconnections@mindthnr.org.uk for more information or to book a workshop.

Further Resources:

Grief in Pieces Bereavement by Suicide Support

Grief in Pieces is part of Safe Connections, a project to help support anyone affected by suicide in the North East London boroughs of London. This service has been designed for and by people who have been bereaved by suicide, to help you navigate the healing and coping process in a safe and confidential environment.

If you’ve experienced a loss by suicide Grief in Pieces can provide you with the following help:

  • Immediate practical and emotional support in the aftermath of a recent suicide loss
  • A confidential and safe environment to share your experience with others
  • A healing group, run by a therapist and someone with lived experience of suicide loss
  • Short group sessions to help you focus on coping or on anger and difficult emotions
  • One-to-one therapy
  • Ongoing support and information about suicide loss, preparing for the inquest, how to support families and children and other relevant services.

For more information visit Have you lost a loved one to suicide? (mindchwf.org.uk)

*All services are open to Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney, Havering, Waltham Forest, Barking & Dagenham, and the City.

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