Between 2013 and 2017, Oberstown implemented a significant change process, amalgamating different facilities and modernising the concept of young people in detention in Ireland. The process was part of an Irish Government Initiative set out in the Youth Justice Strategy aiming to improve outcomes for young people placed in detention.
A framework of best practice to support staff to respond to suicide and self-harm was one element of this change process. STORM® began work with Oberstown in 2017, and by March 2020, the majority of frontline staff (including middle management) had been trained.
Read more about their work in our Case Study – Oberstown Children Detention Campus: Tackling Self-harm in a changing environment
To mark WSPD, we are showcasing some of the projects that we have supported in the last year in the September edition of our newsletter. This year’s WSPD theme is Creating Hope Through Action, and we are sure you will agree that these brilliant initiatives are doing exactly that.
We’ve been reading a very useful report about the sensitive topic of asking about suicide and self-harm when a patient is in primary care. You can read the full report from Ford et al here and we have pulled out some of the key points in this article.
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