Stay Mentally Healthy
Suicide Prevention Programme

"We want suicide to end not escalate! Our mission is to stop suicide by equipping businesses, educational settings, and individuals with the tools to 'stay mentally healthy' and reach their full potential."

 

Jacqueline Mary Phillips
 

 

What is the 'Stay Mentally Healthy' Suicide Prevention Programme (SSPP)?

 

The SMH Suicide Prevention Programme is fundamentally about prevention, learning the skills to stay mentally healthy. Therefore, it incorporates the four steps of the SMH Programme, with an additional fifth step which includes comprehensive intervention and postvention training and services.

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The SSPP in Education

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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."

 

​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 (SMH) programme 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.

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The SSPP in the Workplace

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Understanding of mental health provision, and in particular the risk of suicide should be an integral part of the mental health strategy of every company. With the SSPP the aim is to stop suicide through prevention, this is why, uniquely, the one self-help tool (SEJ Process) used for prevention is also used as a basis for intervention and postvention, as such all support services and training lead full circle back to prevention with the aim of ending suicide.

 

Another unique aspect of the SSPP is in its collaborative approach to positive mental health and suicide prevention, where the whole business community from directors and staff through to families come together to ensure wellbeing. No one and no aspect of a persons life is excluded when it comes to our programme. Because the simple truth is, people do not leave their mental health issues at home when they come to work and visa versa. With the SSPP we ensure that all aspects of an individual's life is respected and acknowledged in the prevention of mental health problems and suicide. 

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Where can I find out more?

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To find out more please contact us for a free consultation and a copy of our 'Stay Mentally Healthy' Suicide Prevention (SSPP) Information Pack.

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