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Carers Workshop: How to support someone with suicidal thoughts

Carers Workshop: How to support someone with suicidal thoughts

A one-day workshop for carers supporting people at risk of suicide is being organised by the region’s mental health provider, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundations Trust (NSFT). 

The workshop will provide carers with coping skills and tools to help manage risk while also raising awareness of safety planning. It’s being held on Saturday 26 February, 10am-4pm over Zoom.

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Fundraiser to build a therapeutic garden at West Suffolk mental health hospital underway

Illustration of what Wedgwood Garden could look like. The design includes landscaped groups with a stream, wooden seating areas, a greenhouse, and trees.

Patients and staff at Wedgwood House, mental health hospital have ambitious plans to create a therapeutic garden for the benefit of patients, staff, and the wider community.  

A small project team made up of NHS staff, outside volunteers and project partner Greener Growth (a Community Interest Company) have been filling their spare time collaborating and pulling ideas together and are now working to raise £90,000 to turn a piece of wasteland into a natural recovery haven.  

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