- ⚠ Content Warning: This film contains discussion of suicide prevention, mental health and emotional wellbeing. In this film, Ya
⚠ Content Warning: In this film, Yasmin shares her reflections on suicide prevention and the importance of ensuring that racialised communities have access to support that is understanding, compassionate and culturally responsive.
Drawing on her own experiences and perspectives, Yasmin speaks about mental health, wellbeing and the importance of creating spaces where people feel safe to seek help, share their experiences and find support.
This film is part of Building the Space: Amplifying Racialised Voices in Suicide Prevention, a campaign dedicated to ensuring that lived experience informs the future of suicide prevention, mental health and bereavement support.
About the Campaign
Building the Space: Amplifying Racialised Voices in Suicide Prevention is a year-long campaign led by Isaac Samuels that seeks to amplify lived experiences of suicidality, suicide prevention and bereavement within racialised communities.
The campaign has been created in response to the ongoing absence of racialised voices within many conversations about suicide prevention, mental health, research, policy and service design.
Through lived experience storytelling, community dialogue and collective learning, Building the Space aims to create opportunities for people to share their experiences safely and on their own terms. These stories will contribute to a growing body of community-led evidence that can help shape future policy, practice, research and support.
At the heart of the campaign is a simple belief:
The people closest to the issues are often closest to the solutions.
Over the coming year, the campaign will share stories, host conversations, build partnerships and create opportunities for communities, organisations, researchers and policymakers to learn together.
How You Can Get Involved
There are many ways to be part of Building the Space:
• Share the campaign through your networks.
• Watch and share campaign films and stories.
• Follow the campaign throughout the year.
• Share your own lived experience where it feels safe to do so.
• Become a campaign partner, supporter or collaborator.
• Connect us with organisations, researchers, policymakers and community leaders.
• Host conversations and create opportunities for learning and reflection.
• Help amplify racialised voices in suicide prevention.
Learn more about the campaign:
https://communityreporter.net/building-space
Register your interest and get involved:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcBJRcSA8kLw8fvB9_PyyzS4bsFP9Z0rppkWHr8f_D1OCATA/viewform
Support and Resources
If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed through this campaign, please remember that support is available. Reaching out for help is a sign of strength.
Immediate Support
Samaritans
Call 116 123 (free, 24 hours a day)
Website: https://www.samaritans.org
Shout
Text SHOUT to 85258 for free, confidential text support 24/7.
Website: https://giveusashout.org
Mental Health Support
Mind
Website: https://www.mind.org.uk
SANEline
Call 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm to 10.30pm daily)
Website: https://www.sane.org.uk
Suicide Prevention Support
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Call 0800 58 58 58
Website: https://www.thecalmzone.net
Bereavement Support
Bereavement by Suicide Support
Website: https://uksobs.org
Cruse Bereavement Support
Call 0808 808 1677
Website: https://www.cruse.org.uk
If you are in immediate danger or feel unable to keep yourself safe, call 999 or attend your nearest Accident and Emergency department.
You do not have to face this alone.
