Time for a Breakthrough in Suicide Prevention: Our Zero Suicide Society Transformation Programme: In 2023, The Jordan Legacy published what’s been described as a “ground-breaking” report ‘Moving Towards a Zero Suicide Society’, mapping out what such a society looks like and the practical actions that will get us there. Now we’re rolling out this strategy!

You can read the full report by clicking this link.

Rolling out The ‘Zero Suicide Society Transformation Programme’ 

(If you’re viewing this page via your mobile device, please scroll down to see details of our inspiring #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots tour launch conference).

What does ‘Rolling it out’ entail?

It involves lots of talks, webinars, online hook-ups & physical meetings with our collaborative partners, Suicide Prevention Leads, Suicide Prevention Partnership Groups, ICBs, NHS Trusts, Councils, Government Departments, MPs, employers, industry associations, sports clubs, charities, community organisations, schools, colleges, universities, designers, Tech for Good entrepreneurs and others involved in implementing practical solutions to prevent suicides.

And, if you’re not included in the list above, we’ll meet with anyone who wants to be ‘part of the solution’ in helping us move towards a Zero Suicide Society and get the suicide numbers on a downward trend, towards zero. 

Did you miss the live Zoom webinar presentation about the Tour on April 4th?

See the recording here:

‘Rolling it out’ in 2024 also means a big public Tour which we’re calling the #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots Tour which will travel from the Humber to the Mersey in June 2024. 

An overview of the Tour

The Tour is 12-23 June, with the Launch Conference in Scunthorpe on 12 June, then travelling through Hull (evening of 12 June), York (13 June – ‘Inclusion & Missing Pieces’ event + film screenings), Wakefield & Leeds (the ‘Cycle for Life’ bike ride on 14 June, plus day in Leeds on 15 June), Halifax/Huddersfield (16 June), Rochdale/Oldham (17 June), Bury (18 June, where they’ve given us the Theatre for the day!), Wigan (a hugely eventful day planned for 19 June), Salford/Warrington (another big day on 20 June), St Helens (morning of 21 June), then Liverpool (from lunchtime on 21 June, inc event at Sean’s Place in the evening) – with a big finish 2-day ‘Merseyside Festival with Lived Experience Voices’ at the glorious Lock and Quay on Sat 22 June & Sun 23 June.

For regular updates about specific tour locations and events, please visit this page.

Working in collaborative partnership with Paul Vittles, everything The Jordan Legacy does from 2024 onwards will be dedicated to moving towards a #ZeroSuicideSociety – which we defined in summary as .“a society that is willing and able to do all it can to prevent all preventable suicides”.

Check out the Merseyside Festival happening on the weekend of June 22nd & 23rd. Click here for details.

Joined Up Solutions & Collective Impact 

The #JoinTheDots Tour is part of this ongoing transformation programme, and the public launch of this programme. It’s designed specifically to ‘join the dots’ in two ways:

1) to show how in our Zero Suicide Society model (see graphic summary below) we’re joining together all the ‘pieces of the puzzle’ that, together, will get the suicide numbers down, towards zero.

2) to join together all the people & organisations currently involved in suicide prevention – often doing similar, complementary, potentially synergistic, suicide prevention activity – but who don’t regularly connect or collaborate, or have never done so, possibly not even aware of each other until we connect them!

The tour will join together these people & organisations who have current or potential ‘solutions’, bringing in people & organisations not currently involved in suicide prevention who have also been identified as ‘part of the solution’. 

In line with the Zero Suicide Society model, the approach will be built on the following foundations:

a) listening to and learning from people with diverse lived/living experiences of suicide, and collaborating with other key stakeholders;

b) making sure there’s the ‘Continuous Systemic Action Learning’ (CSAL) we know is proven to get suicides down, towards zero (eg the * Detroit Health based ‘Zero Suicide in Healthcare’ framework);

c) a co-ordinated, collaborative, integrated approach where there are no ‘winners & losers’ – as traditional ‘priority group’ based strategies have – making sure that “Everyone is a priority for someone”!

*Henry Ford Health System in Detroit was the first to pioneer and conceptualize “zero suicides” as a goal in 2001. Since then, it’s grown to become an international call-to-action for healthcare providers that seeks to create a new culture and care pathway around suicide prevention.

Watch this short video to learn more about evidence-based interventions that have emerged as the foundation of striving for zero suicide globally.

Cycle for Life

There will also be a particularly poignant moment during the tour, when Steve, a keen cyclist, will be inviting others to join him on the short ride that will include a pitstop in Wakefield at the offices of Jordan’s former employer, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, to Horsforth near Leeds where Jordan lived.

Full details now live on this page of our website: https://thejordanlegacy.com/cycle-for-life/

Don’t forget to check out the Merseyside Festival happening on the weekend of June 22nd & 23rd. Click here for details.