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Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals both when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, and when a child is facing bereavement. Every year we train more than 10,000 professionals, helping them to better understand and meet the needs of grieving families.
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We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.
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Child Bereavement UK
Papyrus
What We Know
Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling. Our Vision Our vision is for a society which speaks openly about suicide and has the resources to help young people who may have suicidal thoughts. Our Mission We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour. Our Beliefs and Values:
Our Work
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How Your Money Helps
£5 enables a call, text or email to be answered on HOPELINEUK £20 can pay for a longer, 20 minute telephone conversation to help a young person in distress overcome their pain and stay safe £65 can keep our helpline, text and email services running for over one hour £165 can cover the cost of training someone in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) which is a two day course that prepares caregivers to provide suicide first aid interventions £500 would enable 30 members of the community to become more suicide aware £800 would enable 30 members of the community to learn how to identify a person at risk of suicide and understand the reasons why £1,200 would help us deliver 5 mental health and suicide awareness sessions to young people £5,000 would keep our helpline, HOPELINEUK, our phone, text and email support services open for vulnerable young people and those around them for an entire week |
PAPYRUS has been a long standing member of the government advisory groups in England and Wales on suicide prevention matters. We are active members of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group in England and of the National Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention and Self-harm reduction in Wales. Other national bodies that we contribute to are the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and the National Police Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group.