Creating Hope Together: Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2026-2029
The second three year action plan of Creating Hope Together: Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Strategy (2022-2032)
Footnotes
[1]Information about additional sources of support (including for specific communities) is included as Annex A.
[2] Children and young people are understood to be anyone up to the age of 26, in line with The Promise age range. Our focus is on any children or young people with thoughts of suicide, those bereaved by suicide and those supporting someone with thoughts of suicide.
[3]Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Strategy 2022-2032 (pp. 22-26)
[4]O’Connor, R.C., Kirtley, O.J. (2018). The Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 373: 20170268
[5]Suicide prevention – Mental health – gov.scot
[7]This approach is informed by emerging global evidence that suggests suicide prevention should be complemented by collaborative work with communities to promote ‘liveability’ – addressing the social, cultural, and economic contexts that can make life feel more ‘liveable’ for diverse groups, and especially those who are more disadvantaged Discovering Liveability.