LifeSIGNS is cool!!! That’s what I got told when I was giving out our wonderful leaflets and factsheets in a halls of residence at Sheffield University anyway! In an attempt to raise awareness for SIAD, which seems to be creeping up ever so quickly, I decided to write to a few halls of residences to […]
It has been a while since I’ve blogged, I have been meaning to post about some recent training events for a while. During January I have trained a local branch of the Samaritans, a group of support workers and counsellors at a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre, and attended a Connexions training day for teachers. […]
Today LifeSIGNS are proud to launch guidelines for schools on writing a policy to deal with self-injury – essentially these are aimed towards schools with pupils in the 11-18 age group. So, where did this idea come from I hear you say?!1. In my day job I work with school governors (for the Council), and […]
In time for Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) 2007, we have updated the LifeSIGNS factsheets. The factsheets were initially launched in time for SIAD 2006, and have been an excellent way to get the LifeSIGNS messages across.There are now SIX factsheets available for FREE download (there were 4 before): * General* Students*Teachers*Healthcare Professionals* Family/Friends* MaleYou can […]
And I’m hoping that’ll be a super-duper multi-tasking, maximally organised and efficient woman! That carries a briefcase! And wears powersuits – even when working from home! Maybe not :) Still I am working on reorganising my life having realised at our AGM just how many plans and ideas we have that require real effort to […]
Thank you to everyone who has bought wristbands over the past year. The money made has covered the cost of the bands, but also enabled us to be able to afford to have leaflets produced professionally last August which has been fantastic. We are currently trying to raise money to have our SIA booklet 2007 […]
It seems to have been a long time since I wrote anything in the Blog. Most of my time since September has been spent working on the LifeSIGNS 2007 SIA Booklet. This has been a mammoth task, but when you see it I’m sure you’ll agree it has been worthwhile – the new booklet is […]
Newsflash: We need your (financial) help!While LifeSIGNS has managed to exist for four years and do a great deal of awareness raising on very little money at all, we are asking for money now in one bid to raise enough to cover the cost of printing our Self-Injury Awareness Booklet. We have tried to get […]
Self-Injury Scar help from the Red Cross I was really pleased to come across this article:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2501206,00.html At LifeSIGNS we often mention this valuable service that the Red Cross provides, and it’s really good to hear such someone’s experiences and how they really have been helped.I hope we can develop stronger links with the Red Cross, […]
LifeSIGNS Self-Injury Help in Wales Just a quick one from me – searching the news, and came across an article about a new 5-year self-harm project in Wrexham (Wales): (warning, there is a picture of a blade) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/6171669.stm This scheme is going to be for 11-18 year olds. The article doesn’t go into much detail, […]
LifeSIGNS calls for Translations help – encountering Self-Injury in Multi-cultural Britain As we are going from strength to strength as a charity, it is time to expand in our scope and focus and so we are currently undergoing a project to help improve resources and increase awareness on self-injury in black and minority ethnic groups. […]
Interview with BBC Radio 1XtraOn Thursday I was interviewed by 1Xtra for a self-injury special feature they are producing which will be aired in April. As always, it was great to be able to openly talk about self-injury and real experiences in a bid to raise awareness and remove the stigma sometimes attached to the […]
