The Jordan Legacy - ZeroSuicideSociety -JoinTheDots Tour Launch Conference

Brought to by Paul Vittles in collaborative partnership with The Jordan Legacy and North Lincolnshire Council Public Health.

The #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots Tour, from the Humber to the Mersey, 12-23 June 2024, will start with a huge Launch Conference to be held on Wed 12 June at the glorious Baths Hall in Scunthorpe which can accomodate up to 300 delegates.

Conference line up

There’s probably never been a suicide prevention conference like this before! There'll be an impressive line-up, both top professionals in our field and some of the most effective Lived Experience Campaigners we have in the UK.

Speakers and panel members like:

Professor Joe Rafferty CBE, CEO of Mersey Care NHS Trust, Co-Founder & Chair of the Zero Suicide Alliance.

Or

Julia Waters, sister of Ruth Perry, the Headteacher who took her own life after an Ofsted inspection downgraded the primary school, which she had led for over 13 years, from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’.

Nav Mirza, the stand-out speaker at the 2024 National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) Conference, highlighting a story and an issue that has rarely had a profile but which is another key cause or contributory factor for suicide – dads having, or not having, access to their children, and facing the institutional injustice and systemic discrimination of the Family Court.

Julia and Nav will feature on our "Suicides Driven by Systemic Injustice or Institutionalised Cruelty” panel discussion sessions.

Maybe you're already beginning to get a feel for the fact that the topics covered during this event are different and perhaps more diverse than any suicide prevention conference you've attended before?

To view the full conference line-up and how to book click here.

Conference structure

The Conference Programme is structured around our Zero Suicide Society transformation model, making sure that we consider all 'pieces of the suicide prevention puzzle' at the Conference and cover each piece in depth at some point during our Tour.

To best cover each topic, the Conference will include live talks & presentations, panel discussion sessions, facilitated interviews, pre-recorded videos, artistic & musical performances, Q&As, and appropriate 'audience interaction'.

More than half of those on the stage are people with lived or living experiences of suicide, along with appropriate 'professionals' in the field or suitable 'subject matter experts'.

This conference will feature many of the pieces of the puzzle, featured in the 'Moving Towards a Zero Suicide Society' report published in 2023. including missing pieces that many we interviewed felt should be included:

Other pieces of the puzzle featured at the conference will include: "Suicide Prevention Education in Schools", where we'll hear from Mike Palmer of the 3 Dad's Walking, Louisa Rose from the charity Beyond, Dr Sue Roffey, an international consultant & speaker, and director of Growing Great Schools Worldwide, focused on ‘whole child & whole school’ wellbeing, including teachers.

And that's not the full line up for the schools' piece of the puzzle. View the full line up here.

One piece of the puzzle being discussed is "Witnessing a Suicide", where we'll hear from Alison Dunn, CEO of Citizens’ Advice Gateshead, who knows about many of the causes & contributory factors for suicide, such as poverty or financial distress, relationship breakdown, housing stress & homelessness, unemployment, and the fact her home Region of the North East has a suicide rate twice that of London. In 2023, Alison witnessed a highly public suicide on her way to work that changed her life forever.

This is just a sneak preview of what is an outstanding line-up of speakers, panel members and performers - performers such as the wonderful musician and singer Melody Reed and the Detroit sound of the Rumble Band.

This event is aiming to be as diverse as possible by bringing topics and issues to the fore that are not usually included at a suicide prevention conference.

You will not want to miss this event!.

Make sure you don't miss out by reserving your place today.

£120 for the 120

For the ticket price, we've chosen £120 for two reasons. That price per attendee will generate enough revenue to be able to ensure a high quality event. But, more than that, the 120 number is symbolic because that's how many people die by suicide in the UK every week.

Every single one of those 120 people who lose their lives to suicide each week are not #JustAnotherNumber, they're a person who could have lived a long life, being loved and giving love. But we can't run away from that number - that unacceptably high and needlessly high number - 120 people every week dying by suicide!

Concessionary Places

If you desperately want to attend the Launch Conference but can't afford to pay the full £120 ticket fee, please contact us because we'll be setting aside a certain number of concessionary places. Please contact us via hello@thejordanlegacy.com

We look forward to seeing you at The Baths Hall on June 12th.