The Stay Mentally Healthy
Suicide Prevention Programme

We want suicide to end not escalate
 

Our mission is to stop suicide within the educational community by equipping everyone; students, educators, staff and families with the tools to 'stay mentally healthy' and reach their full potential.

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Suicide prevention must be about learning the skills to stay mentally healthy. Therefore, our focus through the 'Stay Mentally Healthy' Suicide Prevention Programme (SSPP) is on how we support the whole setting community in staying mentally healthy, as a prevention, as well as providing comprehensive intervention and postvention. Throughout the SSPP Information Pack, we will share with you how this can be achieved as we change the focus from institutionally led suicide prevention to a student-centred focus on staying mentally healthy. 

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"We need an urgent paradigm shift in how we support students’ wellbeing and mental health in our educational settings. Current services which are notably institutionally led; often address problems far too late, are overstretched and for many inaccessible for various reasons, tragically this can lead to loss of life.  What is needed is a programme that is student-centred, where we listen to the students’ voice on what they feel their needs are and meet these in support of their mental health and wellbeing. This is exactly how the SSPP came into being."

 

​Statement by Mariko Kishi (BSc, MSc and PhD), Senior Lecturer/Personal Tutor

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We have created a PSHE Association informed Stay Mentally Healthy process for education based on our own research, the DfE’s Statutory RHE guidance, the PSHE Association Programme of Study for PSHE Education for secondary education; University Mental Health Charter, proposed Student Mental Health Bill and Stepchange: Mentally Healthy Universities for HEI. To find out more download the Stay Mentally Healthy Suicide Prevention Information Pack (SSPP).