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A Fife-wide service to provide support for families who have been identified as living with the risk of a relative completing suicide. |
Rationale
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This project funded in recognition of the distress that supporting someone close who is suicidal can cause.
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Desired Outcomes
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- Help for those affected by a suicide attempt in coming to terms with the event.
- Provide counselling support.
- To inform those affected by a suicide attempt of the support that is available to them.
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Relevance to Choose Life's Key Areas Of Work
| | Encouraging and supporting (more) innovative local voluntary services, community-based and self-help initiatives that contribute to the prevention of suicide in local neighbourhoods and communities. | Choose Life Objectives
| - Coping with suicidal behaviour and completed suicide
| Choose Life Priority Groups
| People affected by the aftermath of suicidal behaviour or a completed suicide
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Partners In Delivery
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| Fife Families Support Project |
Evaluation Tools/Methods
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Currently under discussion with Choose Life Group.
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Contact Details
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Stuart Pryde or Lynda Sloan Carer’s Officer Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland) Office 3 Fraser Buildings Millie Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2NL 01592 641401 Ffspnsf@btconnect.com Fax:01592 641401
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