We’d like to hear from people from within the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community about self-injury. We have the chance to feature in a magazine that champions diversity and the BME community. So, we’d like to ask if you, as a member of the BME community, if you’d be willing to provide a quote […]
People often want to set-up real-life ‘support groups’, but are frequently disappointed by attendance and attitudes. Here are some considerations to help you plan a support group to help you.
Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.
‘Web hit stats’ can be misleading, but we’re thrilled to see so may visitors from different countries.
After several months discussing our plans and ideas for a book for FirstSigns, the actual writing of it has finally arrived! This week Wedge and I will be working together and writing several thousand words a day, so that we can publish the book in time for SIAD 2010. As with many things it’s the […]
Wedge will be on the radio on Monday, arguing that health-care professionals mustn’t simply forbid a person from hurting themselves, but rather, support the person as they learn to make new choices and find new coping methods.
Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is the 1st of March, 2010. That means that we’ll sell loads of SI Awareness wristbands and keyrings in February. Which is great! I mean, it’s just fantastic to think so many people will be wearing our wristbands through March – it makes us proud of our members and supporters, and […]
We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever. One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us […]
The Guardian, and other newspapers, are reporting that certain hospitals and mental health centres are ‘assisting’ people to self-injure, and going so far as to provide tools to hurt yourself with. Link This is sensationalism. The newspapers are whipping up a storm. We have advised the NHS for many many years that when supporting a […]
Wedge pops in to ask how you feel about websites that claim to be ‘official’ but are really just hobby websites that soon get abandoned and neglected. Don’t you want to be able to trust the organisations on the web?
Last Monday I travelled to Flintshire in North Wales to meet with Gunars Grinvalds from CAMHS Early Intervention Service. Gunars first contacted FirstSigns after trawling the internet for information on self-harm, as he was putting together a presentation on the subject for the teachers of all secondary schools in Flintshire. He happily told me that […]
We had a great response to SIAD this year and many of you have contacted us, letting us know what you did and how the information on our website helped you. Some of you wanted your endeavours to remain private, and we respect that and thank you. Others were happy for the events of yourselves […]
