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LGBT HIP Launches Suicidal Distress Survey On World Mental Health Day

By James Ledward
Oct 11, 2011 - 10:17:49 AM
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A group of Brighton & Hove organisations have come together to develop the LGBT Health Involvement project (LGBT HIP), with the aim of giving local LGBT people a voice about local healthcare services and issues.

The partner agencies are all providers of services to LGBT people in the city: Brighton LGBT Switchboard, THT South, MindOut, Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton Bothways and the Clare Project.

They have employed Nicolas Douglas to carry out activities like online community surveys, one-to-one and small group interviews as well as experimenting with new ways to enable people to give their feedback using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Zhoosh!

They also want to convene a panel of local LGBT people that can be contacted to give a quick feedback and reaction to events.
 
As their first online consultation, and to mark World Mental Health Day, they have decided to focus on the issue of suicidal distress.

International research identifies that LGB people are more than two times more likely to attempt suicide.

National research has also highlighted the very high rates of suicide attempts reported by trans people.

LGBT HIP want to find out from local LGBT people about their experiences and views so that they can make recommendations about what services are needed and how they can strengthen the community response to supporting people experiencing suicidal distress.
 
Register your details so that you can keep you posted about all the activities that LGBT HIP will be promoting over the coming months.

Find out about what they are doing to make sure that LGBT people have their say.

To fill in the survey go to:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGBT-HIP-Suicide


 


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