Thursday 20 June 2013

National Traveller Suicide Awareness Project

The National Traveller Suicide Awareness Project is a community development approach to the issue of Traveller Suicide. The project works Nationally with Travellers and Traveller groups/organisations to support and resource them in their work on developing responses to the issue of Traveller suicide.

The project Mission is to develop and implement a community development approach to addressing the issue of suicide in the Traveller community through acting as a resource both to Traveller organisations and suicide related services in terms of raising their awareness on the issue of suicide in the Traveller community and promoting the development of initiatives to support suicide prevention, intervention and post vention, in a coordinated way.

The long term aim of the project is to reduce the rate of suicide over the next ten years.

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