A little video for Self-Injury Awareness Day
Our SIAD video is free to share, and already proving popular on Facebook. Do you agree with our 2015 messages?
Our SIAD video is free to share, and already proving popular on Facebook. Do you agree with our 2015 messages?
Written for healthcare professionals – as first-responders and carers, here’s an intro to self-injury.
We change our wristbands slightly each year; the wording is always new, and we sometimes include purple with the traditional orange colour. This year we’ve gone back to plain orange, but with a glow. That’s right, our 2015 wristbands glow in the dark!
Today is Self-Injury Awareness Day. SIAD is an annual, global event that was introduced about fifteen years ago. LifeSIGNS has supported SIAD for the past eleven years, and does more for SIAD than any other self-injury organisation. SIAD is important because it’s the one day of the year when we can use this worldwide event […]
We hope you like our new motto for 2014, which is also the wording on this year’s wristbands. These few simple words are the key to making positive changes, and can relate to any area of our life that needs improving, changing, or renewing. Our daily life is governed by our actions, our behaviours, our […]
We hope that our wristbands will not only help to raise awareness about self-injury, but will also serve as a little reminder to all who wear one that change is possible, and that everyone has the power to create a new, healthier and happier life for themselves.
Charis talks about the reactions people have to self-injury, and the negative assumptions.
The day that we’ve been working towards throughout February has finally arrived. Today is Self-Injury Awareness Day, or SIAD. We are in the West Midlands today for Walsall Safeguarding Children Board’s awareness event, where they will launch their new staff guidelines for supporting children and young people who turn to self-injury. We’ll be there from […]
Our letter has been published in ‘Special Children’ – the magazine for teachers.
SIAD, wristbands, key rings, recruitment, support and your words.
We will be attending WSCG’s Self-Injury Awareness Day event on Friday 1st of March in Walsall in the West Midlands, and showcasing our fact sheets, wristbands and approach to self-injury.
Self-Injury Awareness Day is a global event that occurs each year on the 1st March. SIAD has been running for several years now, and LifeSIGNS is proud to lead SIAD in the UK, not only by raising awareness ourselves, but by providing an amazing selection of resources to enable others to raise awareness too. Change […]