Introduction
The Public Health Agency (PHA) have identified non-recurring funding to address the themes of Suicide Prevention, Self-Harm, Mental Health and Emotional Well-being, and have asked Causeway Rural & Urban Network to facilitate this process for the Coleraine area.
 
Background to Funding Programme
This funding will support the implementation of the PL2 Suicide strategy for Northern Ireland.
Protect Life 2 (PL2) 2019 -2024, https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/protectlife2.

Including: 
Objective 4. Enhance community capacity to prevent and respond to suicidal behavior within local communities  
Making Life Better – A whole system strategic framework for Public Health 2013-2023
This framework is fundamental to the health improvement work of the PHA.
 
In particular, theme three Empowering Healthy Living, where key long-term outcomes are ‘improved health and reduction in harm’; ‘improved mental health and wellbeing, and reduction in self-harm and suicide’; and ‘people are better informed about health matters. Theme five Empowering Communities- where key long-term outcomes include ‘thriving communities’, and theme six: Developing Collaboration, where key long-term outcomes include ‘strengthened collaboration for health and wellbeing’.  

DoH Mental Health Action Plan 2020
https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/health/mh-action-plan-plus-covid-response-plan.pdf.

This Action plan will provide the drive to continue to improve and develop services to better support our population.  Objective No: 12 Encourage local initiatives and improve morale – to create a system that encourages local initiatives and improves moral and helps them feel more resilient, supported and respected. 
Aims
Encourage communities to be pro-active in promoting positive mental health and emotional well-being and tackle the contributing factors of self-harm and suicide. Capacity building, empowering resilience and providing support that promotes positive mental health and emotional well-being.  
Fund initiatives that address and reduce underlying risk factors for example:
- Isolation and loneliness
- Financial Stress
- Relationship / communication issues
- Stress
- Bereavement support
- Inability to access services
- Unemployment
- Financial Stress

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