Preventative Education & Training

Suicide is a community problem, and everyone can help. We aim to raise awareness, educate, and provide preventative training about suicide in schools, workplaces and within our local communities through presentations, workshops, training, and campaigns.

Workplace & Community

Awareness Presentation

We will come to your workplace or community group to deliver an awareness presentation. Delivery is approximately 1 hour with additional time for questions and discussion.

The presentation includes an introduction to the Headlight Project and our services, together with an introduction to suicide and prevention. The aims of the presentation are to:

  • raise awareness of suicide and prevention
  • provide information about the services offered by the Headlight Project
  • introduce actions for a suicide safer workplace and community.
  • provide information about further training opportunities.

We do not make a charge for this presentation. However, as a charity we would appreciate any donation to help us in our mission (suggested min donation £250)

Schools and Colleges

Awareness Presentation

We will come to your school or college to deliver an awareness talk, guided by the individual school/college requirements. The suggested age group is from Year 10 upwards, with the aim being to introduce the Headlight Project and to open those often-difficult conversation about loss and grief, suicide awareness and prevention.

We aim to encourage our young people to always talk about things and become suicide alert as they grow older. We currently loose 200 school children to suicide every year and we want to change this. We would also suggest delivering this presentation to the whole staff team of any educational setting.

Delivery is approximately 1 hour with additional time for questions and discussion.

We do not make a charge for this presentation. However, as a charity we would appreciate any donation to help us in our mission (suggested min donation £250)

We are currently developing our full training programme and more details will follow soon….

If you would like to book an awareness presentation, or hear more about our training and workshop programme when it is available, please contact hello@headlightproject.org You can also visit our support page for referral forms and support resources.  


Campaigns

Turn Blue Monday Bright – Our Annual Awareness Campaign

This is a free awareness campaign that takes place on the third Monday in January. We encourage all schools, workplaces, and community organisations to be involved and provide support materials and guidance to everyone taking part.

The third Monday in January has become known as Blue Monday, due to the combination of cold weather, dark nights, and post-Christmas blues, leading to an increase in mental health issues which can lead to suicide. The aim of the day is to give people a reason to smile, and to remind them of the little things they can do to feel better. Within schools it helps to embed the message to children about talking about their feelings and where to go to if things are troubling them. We hope it gives everyone a reason to smile that day and encourages people to talk.

If you choose to include an element of fundraising that is entirely at your discretion but not a condition of taking part.

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3 Dads Walking Petition

We support the campaign to make age-appropriate suicide prevention a compulsory part of the school curriculum and would encourage you to join us is signing and sharing the petition by following the link – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623390.

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