Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
Every year suicide claims the lives of 800,000 people worldwide -- 4,000 of whom are in Canada. Though this is a difficult topic for many, there is work we can do to change this.
For instance, today CAMH launched a new campaign: Not suicide. Not today. Check out the campaign video here.
The Halton Suicide Prevention Coalition and Crisis Services Canada just launched this webcast.
What creative things are you or your organization doing to prevent suicide? Tell us in the comments below.
Whether you are thinking about suicide, trying to help a person having suicidal thoughts, or coping with loss due to suicide, help is available.
For more information about suicide prevention, see the following websites:
For information about what is happening around the globe for World Suicide Prevention Day, and how to honour it and get involved, see: https://www.iasp.info/wspd2019/
According to statistic that on the average about 17% of all suicides are workplace related. The prevention has made great progress since even from a year ago that workplace harassment can result suicide were denied. But there are many resource and statistics now become available (google) on this topic. Any effective prevention start with acknowledgement the existence of the problem. Since my main focus is workplace mental health, I would like to voice that stop workplace harassment for suicide prevention!