Over the past two years we’ve been embedding lived experience into our research and campaign and influencing work.
In 2021 we worked with people with lived experience to develop our 2022-27 strategy ‘Tackling suicide together; here we committed to:
Ensuring the voice of people with experience of suicidal feelings, suicide attempts, self-harm, or bereavement by suicide is central to and shapes all our services, products, campaigns and activities.
We are now in the process of co-designing Samaritans first ever Lived Experience Strategic plan. This will help us set goals and define how we achieve them together over the next few years.
We want to keep you up to date on what we’re doing and what we’re learning before the strategy launches in Autumn 2024. You’ll also be able to read about how people with lived experience are taking part in and influencing Samaritans work to ensure fewer people die by suicide.