Thank you to the Western Daily Press for their article  about our Suicide Crisis Centre:-

“Centre Will Support Those At Lowest Ebb”

http://westerndailypress.co.uk/Centre-support-lowest-ebb/story-19929422-detail/story.html

Thank you to Ken Goodwin and the ITV regional news team, to Lisa Jones and the team from Glosmedia and to local BBC and independent radio stations for their coverage of the official opening of our Suicide Crisis Centre.  You have helped to raise awareness and bring new clients to us, who are in crisis.

Thank you very much to ITV regional television for their coverage of the opening of our Suicide Crisis Centre. Special thanks to Natalie, one of our clients, for her amazing interview. Please click on this link for an excerpt from it:-

Suicide Crisis Centre Opens In Gloucestershire

Thank you so much to The Alliance of Suicide Charities (TASC) for including this article about the opening of our Suicide Crisis Centre on their website :-

http://www.tasc-uk.org/suicide-crisis-centre-opens-cheltenham

We are nearing the end of National Suicide Prevention Week. This is the week that our Suicide Crisis Centre opened and started taking referrals.

Several volunteers completed their ASIST training this week. This is the final stage of their training with us. Our remaining volunteers will take their ASIST course in early October.  We are hugely proud of our volunteers.

On World Suicide Prevention Day (10th September) we had a presence at the excellent Sane conference on suicide prevention in London. One of our team had partipated in their recent research on suicide. The research focuses on how family, friends and communities can support a person who is at risk of suicide.

Our new PTSD group is starting in central Cheltenham on Tuesday 20th August at 6.00pm.  At the first meeting an NHS psychological therapist from IAPT will be coming to talk to the group about PTSD and treatments.  Other professionals (who work with PTSD) will be attending subsequent meetings. Please contact us via this website if you would like to be part of the group.

This is the link to Joy and Graham talking about our trauma services and our suicide crisis services on BBC Radio Gloucestershire (30th June).  The programme starts at 6.00am and Joy and Graham come in at 9.10am. Thank you to Mark Smith who was interviewing :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b8fsd

Our new volunteers started training with us this week. They’re receiving a package of training over the summer months, starting with a training course that Gloucestershire College is formulating and providing especially for us . Next month Bristol Mind provide training in SafeTALK (identifying suicidal thoughts), and our charity’s advising psychiatrist provides training sessions on the subject of suicidality and mental health issues . In the late summer and early autumn volunteers will be training in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training).