Resources from UOK’s World Suicide Prevention Day webinar, including practical guidance, suicide prevention tools and information for people supporting someone else.
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On 10 September 2026, UOK and our partners came together for our World Suicide Prevention Day webinar, “Has the narrative changed?”
The webinar brought together lived-experience perspectives and contributions from Grassroots Suicide Prevention, Rethink Mental Illness, Brighton Women’s Centre, Body and Soul and The Listening Place. Together, we explored how lived experience can shape suicide prevention, support following suicide bereavement, safety planning and what still needs to change to make prevention more inclusive, compassionate and effective.
Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation. You can find the presentation and resources shared during the webinar below.
Webinar presentation
Webinar recording
Resources from Grassroots Suicide Prevention
Stay Alive
Stay Alive is a free suicide prevention resource for people experiencing suicidal thoughts and anyone worried about someone else. It includes a safety plan, reasons for living, practical tools and information about crisis support. It can be accessed online or through the Stay Alive app.
Women’s Suicide Prevention Hub
Visit the Women’s Suicide Prevention Hub
The hub brings together information, advice and support relating to women’s experiences of suicide and suicidal thoughts. It explores some of the factors that can affect women and offers guidance on talking about suicide and finding help.
Neurodiversity Suicide Prevention Hub
Visit the Neurodiversity Suicide Prevention Hub
This hub brings together lived experience, practical guidance and resources to support suicide prevention for neurodivergent people. It includes information for neurodivergent people, families and professionals.
Voices of Expertise podcast
Listen to “Breaking barriers: Suicide prevention for neurodivergent patients in primary care”
This episode, featuring Emily, explores barriers experienced by neurodivergent people and how professionals can provide more accessible, compassionate and responsive support.
Listen to Emily’s podcast
Breaking the Silence
Find out about Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence is a free, evidence-informed collection of teaching resources for professionals working with young people aged 14 and over. It helps young people recognise when a peer may be struggling, respond safely and understand when to involve a trusted adult.
Resources from Rethink Mental Illness
Booklets and factsheets
Explore Rethink Mental Illness booklets and factsheets
These resources include information about coping with suicidal thoughts, supporting someone else, suicide bereavement, inquests and the practical steps that may follow a death.
Supporting someone experiencing suicidal thoughts
You do not need to have all the answers. Listening without judgement, taking someone seriously and helping them connect with appropriate support can make a difference.
- Suicidal thoughts: how to support someone – Rethink Mental Illness
- How to help someone who feels suicidal – Mind
- Supporting someone with suicidal thoughts – Samaritans
Resource for NHS organisations
Working together to prevent suicide in the NHS workforce – NHS England (PDF)
This toolkit helps NHS organisations embed suicide prevention within workforce health and wellbeing policies and strengthen the support available to staff.
