Citation

Woodhouse A, Platt S, McLean J, Halliday E, McCollam A, McDaid D, Maxwell M, Mackenzie M. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 88.

Affiliation

Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health, 17a Graham Street, EH6 5QN Edinburgh, UK. amy@sdcmh.org.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16964011

Abstract

In the first phase of its implementation (2003-2006) Choose Life, the national strategy and action plan to prevent suicide in Scotland, earmarked pounds 3m of its pounds 12m funding for innovative local voluntary, community-based, self help and training initiatives that address suicide prevention and reduction across the 32 local government areas in Scotland. In winter 2004/05 the national evaluation team invited all local Choose Life co-ordinators to record examples of local innovative practice, stating what outcomes they expected these projects would achieve. A year later, local co-ordinators were approached again to discover what progress had been made in these projects. This presentation is based on the results of these two surveys. It will look at the range of different projects that were highlighted by local areas as innovative (including drama, work with football [soccer] clubs and youth workers) and why they consider them to be so. The presentation will also look at what progress has been made in the intervening year, what has gone well and not so well, and what local co-ordinators would have done differently in retrospect. The presentation will be of interest to those involved in planning, delivering or evaluating local suicide prevention strategies.

Language: en