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Removed
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This charity was removed from the register on 12 Oct 2018
- Charity no. 100875
- Date registered. 15/02/2018
Public benefits
Benefits: i. To provide regional access to innovative, evidence informed suicide prevention services for the entire NI population, promoting hope and recovery to wellness and life enhancing alternatives to suicide at times of personal crisis. ii. To engage active partnerships which identify and mitigate individual and societal suicide risk
factors, providing solidarity for individuals, families, communities and professionals at times of crisis, building a suicide prevention movement dedicated to significantly reduce the NI suicide death rate. iii. To raise awareness among the general public, partner organisations and civic leadership, promoting a leadership culture to champion compassionate professional competence and community confidence in cooperative crisis intervention services, promoting suicide prevention policy and practice dedicated to reduce the NI suicide death rate. Our beneficiaries are the general public of Northern Ireland. There is a private benefit in the form of staff salaries however this benefit is necessary and incidental for Contact to fulfil its purposes. There is no harm flowing from the purposes.
What your organisation does
Contact provides the following services: Lifeline Crisis Response - This is a telephone counselling service for people in crisis or despair and Lifeline also offers free face to face counselling. The focus is on crisis counselling wraparound, while providing early intervention wraparound crisis counselling, expanding brief solution focussed
crisis counselling for people at low, moderate and high risk, following a comprehensive needs assessment balancing risk against protective factors. The Lifeline service is funded through the Public Health Agency. Community based counselling - Confidential counselling for people of all ages, based in a safe, local environment.
The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Counselling/support
Charitable purposes
The fundamental purpose of CONTACT is:- i. To provide hope and professional support for people at risk of suicide; ii. To raise awareness with professionals and the NI population, promoting confident, compassionate, easily accessed suicide prevention care; iii. To promote innovative practice within and between systems of care to ensure the learning from evidence based research is shared to significantly reduce the NI suicide death rate.