Suicide Prevention Champions: Help spread the word
Here is a range of resources for you to use as a Suicide Prevention Champion and to help spread the word about our Suicide Prevention Champions campaign.
Click on the links or images and select 'save link as....' to download the files you need.
Media release
Partnership launches new campaign to recruit Suicide Prevention Champions across West Yorkshire
Posters
Social media (graphics and suggested copy for posts)
Twitter, LinkedIn (landscape, 1200 x 630)
- Every Life Lost - landscape
- Stop the Stigma - landscape
- Would You Know - landscape
- Talk About - landscape
- Champion badge 1 - landscape
- Champion badge 2 - landscape
Facebook (940 x 788)
- Every Life Lost - Facebook
- Stop the Stigma - Facebook
- Would you Know - Facebook
- Talk About - Facebook
- Champion Badge 1 - Facebook
- Champion Badge 2 - Facebook
Instagram (square 1080 x 1080)
- Every Life Lost - square
- Stop the Stigma - square
- Would You Know - square
- Talk About - square
- Champion Badge 1 - square
- Champion Badge 2 - square
Web banners
Web banners/Facebook and Twitter cover images
- Every Life Lost - web banner
- Stop The Stigma - web banner
- Would You Know - web banner
- Talk About - web banner
Graphics for big screens (eg GP surgeries)
Animated graphics (mp4, 1024 x 758)
Graphics (1024 x 758)
Newsletter wording/website wording
People across West Yorkshire are being encouraged to sign up as Suicide Prevention Champions and join the effort to reduce the area’s above-average suicide rate.
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s new campaign urges everyone to play a part in helping to lower the suicide rate by taking an active role in challenging stigma and raising awareness.
Signing up as a Champion takes minutes online. It involves watching a 20-minute video and making a pledge – big or small – about how you plan to promote suicide prevention at home/in the community or at work.
Champions will have access to the latest suicide prevention news, resources, support services and information to help spread the word and encourage action.
The most recent figures show West Yorkshire continues to have a higher suicide rate than England as a whole, with a rolling three-year rate in 2021 of 13.2 per 100,000 people, compared to 10.4 per 100,000 nationally. This was a rise from 12.6 in West Yorkshire in 2018-2020.
For more information and to sign up, visit https://suicidepreventionwestyorkshire.co.uk/becomeachampion