Every Life Matters
An innovative and long-term approach to suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support in Cumbria.
Every Life Matters formed in late 2018 with a singular mission – to take an innovative and long-term approach to suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support in Cumbria, a county that has had suicide rates well above the national average for too many years, and particularly along its West Coast communities.
Funding to support:
- A training programme
- Suicide Prevention Projects and Resources
- Community Action
- Raising public awareness
- Focused Interventions
- Local leadership
- Supporting Bereaved Communities
Sellafield Investment
£98,287
Timeline
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Project Start
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Project End
Outcome
- Delivery of training to approximately 3,600 people
- 2 Suicide Prevention Projects and Resources
- Orange Button Community Scheme
- Project Champions
- Suicide Safer Workplace Toolkit
- Suicide Safer Community Group Toolkit
- Suicide Safer Schools Toolkit
- Suicide Prevention Paper Resources
- Community Action by organisations/individuals to develop their own projects/campaigns/direct action around suicide
- Local Leadership groups
Project gallery
More about this project
Every Life Matters - Mental Health Awareness Week
Bereaved dads help students talk about suicide
Suicide Safer action group to launch in Allerdale
Maryport will host launch to lower Cumbria's suicide rate
Carlisle United Football Club: Our support for World Suicide Prevention Day
Every Life Matters offers Orange Button Training
Charity is offering free suicide awareness training to groups
Suicide prevention charity Every Life Matters launches new action group in Copeland
Wellness Kick Around - Cumberland FA
Tebay nurse praises Every Life Matters for support after losing Workington friend to suicide
Cumbria has a 50 per cent higher suicide rate than England's average
Cumbria woman's message after her partner's suicide and the help available to those who need it
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