Help Prevent Avoidable Deaths Lost By Suicide

Sabina Mckenzie Brown

When you feel suicidal in the UK, doctors tell you to go to A&E. What you will find there is based on luck: will you find compassion? Or will you be judged and turned away? A majority of the time, the latter. Yet, asking for help can be a turning point for individuals in crisis.
We are a team of people profoundly touched by lives both lost and saved by suicide who want to change this current reality. So we have launched a petition to call on parliament to create a nation-wide, guaranteed response to individuals seeking help for suicidal thoughts and feelings in our hospitals!
Link to Petition: <A HREF="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231772" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231772</A>
About the Event
For the last 5 months, we have been running a campaign to raise awareness about the dangerous inconsistency in the response of hospitals across the country towards individuals in crisis.
Two of our group ran across the width of the UK to raise signatures and awareness, leading to two BBC interviews and a whole heap of additional signatures.
Now that we are coming to the time limit of our petition, we are running a final push to get the 10,000 signatures needed to get a response from Government.
Who Is This Event For?
We are all touched by mental health issues in some way in our lives. Whether it's us, our co-workers, our family, our friends, the musicians we listen to, the nurses and doctors who help us or the politicians who make the decisions.
Mental illness and suicidal thoughts don't discriminate.
If you are interested in improving mental health support in the UK and would like to show your support for this petition and the changes we are calling on the government to implement, this event is for you.
Your support and participation will make a big difference.
Agenda:
6.30 arrival (Please arrive 15min early, to allow for security checks)
6.45 Start
6.45 - 6.50 intros from Matteo &amp; Sabina &amp; Alison
6.50 - 6.55pm – Film
6.55 - 7.15pm - Michelle and Johnny Interview
7.25 - 7.40pm - Q and A
7.40 – 7.45pm - Hayley Mulenda, a Multi-Award Winning International Speaker and Author
7.45 - 8.20 - Mini Hackathon (Matteo)
8.20 - 8.25pm - Maisha sumah, speaker
8.25 – 8.30pm - Thank you and close

Houses of Parliament (Committee Room 15)

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