Guiding principles |
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• Shared responsibility (across Scottish Executive departments, sectors, agencies and organisational boundaries) |
• Effective leadership (nationally and locally |
• Taking a person-centred approach (recognising variation in individuals' experiences, often associated with key life stages) |
• Focus on priority approach (without losing sight of the broader needs of society as a whole) |
• Continuous quality improvement (drawing on, and developing, better information and evidence of what works) |
Main objectives |
• Early prevention and intervention |
• Responding to immediate crisis |
• Longer-term work to provide hope and support recovery |
• Coping with suicidal behaviour and completed suicide |
• Promoting greater public awareness and encouraging people to seek help early |
• Supporting the media |
• Knowing what works |
Priority groups |
• Children (especially looked after children) |
• Young people (especially young men) |
• People with mental health problems (particularly service users and people with severe mental illness) |
• People who attempt suicide |
• People affected by the aftermath of suicidal behaviour |
• People who abuse substances |
• People in prison |
• People who are recently bereaved |
• People who have recently lost employment or who have been unemployed for a period of time |
• People in isolated or rural communities |
• People who are homeless |