The Suicide Epidemic

The prevalence of suicide amongst the homeless community is disproportionate to that of the general population. As part of the Comic Relief funded 'From the Ground Up' partnership between Groundswell and the Pavement magazine, volunteers with experience of homelessness were trained as peer journalists. They researched different organisations (Samaritans, CALM, #deardistressed, Maytree, Mind, For Professionals, Storm) offering advice and counselling to people who found themselves feeling suicidal. You can read the accompanying Pavement magazine here: https://groundswell.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Suicide-Feature-Edition.pdf