The 3T's - Turn the tide of Suicide.

3T’s (Turn the Tide of Suicide) is a registered charity (reg no. CHY15710), founded to raise awareness of the problem of suicide in Ireland and to raise funds to help lower suicide rates through dedicated research, educational support and intervention. In February 2007, 3Ts became a founder member of the Action on Suicide Alliance, a grouping of  organisations who have come together to lobby for increased funding and implementation of suicide prevention strategies 

http://www.3ts.ie/

 

Amnesty International 

Amnesty International’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. 

In pursuit of this vision, Amnesty International’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.  

http://www.amnesty.ie/

 

Bodywhys

Bodywhys is the Irish national eating disorders charity, which offers support, information and understanding for people with eating disorders, 

their families and friends.

Bodywhys services centre on providing confidential, non judgemental support for people affected by eating disorders.

Bodywhys services centre on providing confidential, non judgemental support for people affected by eating disorders.

http://www.bodywhys.ie/

 

Console

Supports and helps people bereaved through suicide. The Helpline offers a confidential listening service for people bereaved through suicide. Console promotes positive mental health within the community in an effort to reduce the high number of attempted suicides and deaths through suicide. 

http://www.console.ie/

 

Irish Advocacy Network 

Peer advocates are people who have personal experience of mental health difficulties who have achieved a sufficient level of recovery to complete an accredited training course in peer advocacy. Once they are qualified they can complete a period working with an existing peer advocate before engaging with clients on their own. This puts them in a unique position in understanding the problems faced by people with mental health difficulties 

http://www.irishadvocacynetwork.com/

 

Irish Mental Health Coalition 

The Irish Mental Health Coalition campaign was launched in June 2006. The campaign will put mental health on the political and public agendas, including in the run up to the next General Election.

One in four people in Ireland will experience a mental health problem at some point in their lives. Many will never need to seek services and supports, but for those of us who will, our future, and that of our children and families, will depend on the right help being available when we need it. At the moment, this is not what many people around the country are encountering when they reach out for support. The Irish Mental Health Coalition campaign believes that we can and must confront the issues and take practical steps to improve mental healthcare in Ireland 

http://www.imhc.ie/

 

Let's Get Together Foundation 

The Let’s Get Together Foundation (S.B.F.) works in partnership to listen and support the person in their individual needs and to offer appropriate information on help available in a relaxed confidential environment. Our Aim is to listen whatever the problem, to provide a support service in a friendly, confidential, non-judgemental and relaxed manner. To access information and to provide reassurance. To provide a supervised meeting place for all age groups in a non drug and alcohol atmosphere. To provide an advice centre in the town which offers people direct access to existing information for their individual needs. To act as a link agency to other information centres locally and nationally.

http://www.letsgettogether.ie/

 

 

Living Links 

Living Links provides help, advice and support to persons bereaved by suicide. A suicide outreach support is available to help you. The first Living Links group was set up in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary in May 2002, when a small group of local people got together in direct response to a suicide in the community. The event was tragic and cataclysmic for the people and there was a huge sense of inadequacy on the ground as to how to provide appropriate community support and a consequent sense of failure as a community. 

http://www.livinglinks.ie/

 

Shine

Shine is the national organisation dedicated to upholding the rights and addressing the needs of all those affected by enduring mental illness including, but not exclusively, schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder and bi-polar disorder, through the promotion and provision of high-quality services and working to ensure the continual enhancement of the quality of life of the people it serves.  Shine has offices in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Tullamore, Ennis and Dundalk.

http://www.shineonline.ie/

 

SpunOut.ie 

SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s leading online youth health, lifestyle and citizenship resource for 16 to 25 year olds. The website can be accessed via the internet and mobile phones, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ensuring that young people always have access to information and support if and when they need it.

SpunOut.ie provides a safe online space for young people to realise they are not alone in the issues they face whilst growing up and that they can make a positive change to their own wellbeing and to the world around them. 

http://www.SpunOut.ie/

 

Suicide or Survive

Suicide or Survive Ltd (SOS) provides services and supports aimed at suicide prevention in Ireland. SOS is client focused and has designed and is running an innovative group programme (The Eden Programme) that provides people who have attempted or contemplated suicide with an opportunity to explore their own experiences, develop their personal skills and source avenues of support and assistance. The ultimate aim of this programme is suicide prevention. The Eden Programme is unprecedented in Ireland and is both unique and creative in its approach. Our aim is that the programme is offered nationwide. 

http://www.suicideorsurvive.ie/

 

Teen Line Ireland 

We provide a non-judgemental, listening service for young people.

Teen-Line Ireland is a registered charity that provides a national free-phone helpline for young people in Ireland. Our aim is to provide emotional support, through our listening service, for young people who may be feeling alone, worried, distressed and even suicidal. Our freephone contact number is 1800833634.  

http://www.teenline.ie/

This National Crisis sparked the foundation of The Action On Suicide Alliance, an organisation comprising 11 groups working within the area of suicide prevention who have united with one clear purpose, and that is to bring about a reduction of suicide rates in Ireland.

In February 2007, The Action on Suicide Alliance launched a campaign to put pressure on the Government to implement its own recommendations on suicide prevention. One of the Alliance's key objectives is to see the allocation of an annual suicide prevention budget of €10 million each year for the next 5 years to fund national, regional and local suicide prevention initiatives in Ireland.

Approximately 1000 people in the island of Ireland die annually through suicide – that's approximately 3 people a day. In southern Ireland, we estimate around 600 people die by suicide and of these, one in six suicide deaths are males under 25 years and almost one in six are males under 35 years. Suicide devastates lives, destroys families and affects communities across the country. Risk factors include depression, schizophrenia and alcohol. Additionally major social change has resulted in less social cohesion so prevention requires long term sustained action and investment which focuses on all the possible causes.

We call on Government to take a stand on the issue and make a public commitment to fully funding and implementing the existing suicide prevention strategy.

As part of its campaign, the Action On Suicide Alliance launched a petition that is run on-line via its website, www.actiononsuicide.ie and through the post. Add your name to the campaign

The Action On Suicide Alliance comprises: 3TS, Amnesty International Irish Section, Bodywhys – The Eating Disorder Association of Ireland, Console, Irish Advocacy Network, Irish Mental Health Coalition, Let's Get Together Foundation, Living Links, Schizophrenia Ireland, SpunOut, and Teen-Line Ireland.

 

The mission of the Action on Suicide Alliance is to reduce the incidence of suicide and self-harm in Ireland by advocating for Government provision of suicide prevention measures and mental health services. To this end, in solidarity with individuals and families bereaved through suicide and people who have attempted suicide, the Alliance will raise public and political awareness of the ongoing suicide crisis and Government under-investment in suicide prevention measures and mental health services. The Alliance does not support or oppose any government, political party, or political or religious ideology.