Help Prevent Avoidable Deaths Lost By Suicide
Event Information
Description
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: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231772
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:
6pm: Arrival
6:15pm prompt: An introduction and viewing of the campaign film
6:20pm: Interviews with Michelle and Johnny who ran the width of the UK
6:50pm: Panel with MPs followed by Q&A
Organiser UK - Universal Peace Federation
Organiser of Help Prevent Avoidable Deaths Lost By Suicide
Universal Peace Federation (UPF) seeks to enable a network of peace oriented, altruistic people to heal inter-racial, interreligious, inter-national tensions and build a unified world of peace by establishing an order of inter-dependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values.
Universal Peace Federation - UK (UPF-UK) has been recognised as a Charity (Number 1185412) by the UK Charity Commission. Briefly summarised, the agreed Objects of the charity are: First, the promotion of national and international conflict resolution and reconciliation. The second set of objects are to promote racial and religious harmony and peaceful co-existence between people of different religions, cultures, races and nations.
UPF is an NGO in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and advocates renewal of the United Nations, including a proposal that the UN create an interreligious council within its structures.
UPF International has launched the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP). It was inaugurated as a worldwide association of parliamentarians providing a forum to bring their experience and wisdom to bear in the search for solutions to our world’s problems. UPF has also launched the Inter-religious Association for Peace and Development (IAPD) to promote interreligious dialogue. UPF encourages all religions to dialogue and cooperate for peace based upon the recognition that human dignity derives from a universal divine source that is the basis of harmony and unification.
Full charitable objects and other information: https://uk.upf.org/ukupf/peace-and-development/864-universal-peace-federation-uk-becomes-a-charity
