Anyone with an interest in making Cornwall suicide free is invited to attend a Towards Zero Suicide event to mark this year’s World Mental Health Awareness Day on October 10.

It’s taking place at Falmouth’s Princess Pavilion from 5.30pm until 8.30pm and the main focus will be around the role everyone has to play in reducing the stigma around mental health and in developing the services and interventions that will make a real difference to people’s lives.

The event will look at how best to engage with people about mental health and suicide; how to create suicide safer communities and self-harm in children and young people

Public Health Consultant, Dr Ruth Goldstein said: ’Whether you have experience as a service user, you have been bereaved by suicide, you work in mental health or are an interested citizen, we all have a role to play and we welcome your contribution.

’Cornwall has a high rate of suicides compared to other parts of the UK so it’s imperative that we all take action to reduce the amount of people who, for whatever reason, feel there is no other way out.’

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