A real privilege to speak to Prof Jordan Smoller, Co-founder of the new Suicide Prevention Research Centre with Harvard University and MassGeneral News, for my The Churchill Fellowship 🇺🇸🛩 He provided valuable insights to enrich my research from his decades of experience 💡

Full and part-time teacher vacancies have risen by a massive 20% since last year Pepe Di’Iasio warns heads are often having to “advertise roles several times [while] making use of supply staff in intervening period, all of which has a financial cost” tes.com/magazine/news/…

Suicide prevention and mental health organisations are coming together in Wigan as part of a national tour to “join the dots". wigantoday.net/health/wigan-o…

Amazing visit to The Jason Foundation in Tennessee for my The Churchill Fellowship. They have transformed suicide prevention in schools across the USA through Jason's Law. This mandates annual suicide prevention training for ALL teachers, saving countless young lives 👏 Truly inspirational ♥️

The idea of huge camhs waiting lists is well known - but increasingly suicidal children aren’t even making it onto a waiting list as services so over-stretched. “How can we claim to be a civilised country and be letting children down so badly?” theguardian.com/society/articl…

It was a privilege to be on the School Panel at The The Jordan Legacy #JoinTheDotsTour, alongside Mike from 3DadsWalking 😊 Incredibly inspiring event and an enormous credit to Steve Phillips and Paul Vittles for organising 🙌 #SuicidePrevention

Incredibly well-deserved 👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

Looking forward to presenting at the SSHRG tomorrow 👇 With insights from my The Churchill Fellowship 🌏

Brilliant to be part of the EPiCHOPEUK The Jordan Legacy #TowardsZeroSuicide #Jointhedotstour in my home town this week. Incredibly inspiring event and such an important message of hope throughout 🙌 Another well done for Paul Vittles!

Thank you, Emma! It was brilliant to share some of my The Churchill Fellowship insights with the SSHRG group 😊

Bridget Phillipson Department for Education At the #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDotsTour Launch Conference in Scunthorpe 12 June, we had key ‘experts by #LivedExperience’ for changes needed in #education to save lives, inc 3DadsWalking Beyond Dr Sue Roffey Nina Natasha's Dad & Julia Waters on #Ofsted reform.

branwen jeffreys On 12 June, we got together people like Julia Waters Nina & Natasha's Dad with #LivedExperience of #suicide knowing precisely what actions in #education #schools & #universities will prevent further suicides. No media though! Next event London? youtu.be/48blmJWg1aE

In Vancouver to watch @wrexham_afc play tomorrow. Incredibly proud #DeadpoolAndWolverine seems to be bringing millions of people to the theater. Sports and movies bring us together so posting a gentle reminder that none of us are alone. #MaximumEffort John Bell ~ Dadpool

Rachel Thompson sarah waters HSE Martin McKee 🇺🇦 louis appleby Edmund Barnett-Ward Also Department for Education has spent years telling campaigners like 3DadsWalking how complex it is to have #SuicidePrevention education in #schools, wanting more due diligence… …whilst they’ve had it in Australia for 5 yrs as Nina has been documenting. #ZeroSuicideSociety

Suicide prevention training is invaluable. Always. And especially in prison settings where mental health challenges are prevalent. Today, Ellie and Nina delivered our second level of training, Living Works safeTALK, to a group of residents HMP/YOI Hindley #SuicidePrevention

In just one year, Nicole Devlin has gone from hesitantly applying for a Fellowship to successfully piloting the Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) programme she discovered during her research—and this is just the beginning 🙌 Read Nicole's inspiring blog here: churchillfellowship.org/news-views/blo…

Always great to hear from Nina. Incredibly interesting work across Australia and the USA highlighting the importance of school based suicide prevention programmes and training for all staff SSHRG

Can’t wait to see you Paul Vittles Nina

** NEW TRAINING** Updated ZSA #SuicideAwareness Training now available! The training aims to support suicide awareness and shares how you can approach a potentially life-saving conversation 💛 Take the training 👇 zerosuicidealliance.com/suicide-awaren… #StartAConversation #WSPD2024

Many thanks to Mike Palmer 3DadsWalking Nina Allison Alfie's Squad Dan Sing Their Name Choir Choir, Helen Palmer, Jolene Sheehan Lee & Catherine GraphicRewilding and Grace Dyke Yellow Jigsaw for supporting our #WSPD24 event today. #shiningalightonsuicide Judd Skelton NHS Greater Manchester