Overview

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  • Poverty
  • Lifeskills, Educations & Training
  • Health & Social Well-being
  • Living, Working & Environmental Health
  • Partnership

Key Contacts

Madeline Heaney
madeline.heaney@hscni.net
Tel 028 2531 1178

Gabrielle Nellis (Co-ordinator - Suicide Prevention)
gabrielle.nellis@hscni.net
Tel 028 2531 1172

Jayne McConaghie (Co-ordinator - Promoting Mental Health)
jayne.mcconaghie@northerntrust.hscni.net
Tel 028 2563 5575

Mental Health Promotion/Improvement is an umbrella term that includes any action promoting mental well-being, preventing mental health problems and improving the quality of life of those diagnosed with mental health problems. It is both an action to enhance the mental well-being of individuals, families, organisations and communities, and a set of principles, which recognise that how people feel is not an abstract and elusive concept, but a significant influence on health (Friedii, 2000)

Suicide Prevention is preventative collective efforts to reduce the incidence of suicide through proactive preventive measures.  Suicide Prevention, being everybody’s business, implies a degree of responsibility for action on all of us, depending on our personal knowledge, derived from our life experiences and our professional training.