We work to raise awareness of suicide with the aim of supporting suicide awareness and prevention across different communities.
We use insights from research, professional expertise and lived experiences to:
- Develop free online training courses
- Host online suicide awareness sessions and webinars
- Provide accessible suicide related data insights and dashboards
- Share learning and support a range of suicide prevention related activities, projects and initiatives
- Share factual information that can help breakdown stigma
Working in collaboration and partnership with a wide range of people and organisations brings together different skills and expertise. Many of these are ZSA members who share our zero suicide ambition. Their support helps ensure the work we do meets the needs of different groups of people.
Find out more about some of our key partnerships and collaborations
The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) launched with a FREE online training course in November 2017 and has gone on to develop more courses which are more bespoke to specific audiences or risk factors.
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Course |
Launch dates |
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Suicide Awareness Training (20-minute course) - version 1 |
November 2017 |
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Suicide Awareness Training (gateway/short course) |
May 2018 |
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Social Isolation Training (step-up) |
June 2020 |
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University Students Suicide Awareness Training |
January 2022 |
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Suicide Awareness Training - Welsh translation |
March 2022 |
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Veteran Suicide Awareness Training |
September 2022 |
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Suicide Awareness Training for Taxi Drivers |
March 2023 |
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Suicide Awareness Training for Probation Staff |
September 2023 |
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Prison Suicide Awareness Training |
October 2023 |
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Autism and Suicide Awareness Training |
April 2024 |
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Suicide Awareness Training - version 2 |
September 2024 |
In addition to keeping the training free and available on the ZSA website, the team regularly hosts and attends events to share learning and insights that can support suicide awareness and prevention.
Our aim is to keep training opportunities free and easy for anyone to access so that more people feel confident and able to talk to someone who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts. We believe this can help save lives.
Suicide is complex and rarely the result of one single cause. But there are known risk factors and understanding research and data around these can be helpful.
In June 2020, the ZSA launched its first suicide resource map to share over 100 indicators relating to suicide and suicide risk from multiple sources. This has since evolved to the current suicide data map and dashboards and the data is updated each year.
We also carry out primary research and literature reviews to analyse, summarise and evaluate existing research around suicide related topics and use this to inform our work.
