In April 2021, as part of the Trust’s Veterans’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, the One is Too Many (OITM) programme awarded grants of up to £300,000 to two-year projects that aim to reduce suicide risks within vulnerable veterans in a co-ordinated and targeted way. Collaborative working was expected as part of this programme. Projects were required to show that they were likely to reduce suicides in veterans.
The OITM programme has illustrated suicide risk factors leading to veterans’ self-harm, suicide risk and protective factors and these can now inform policymakers, healthcare professionals, and third-sector organisations of a direction of travel that has palpable benefits.
The evaluation report below, produced by the University of Chester, includes findings and recommendations from the programme, and insights into areas such as social isolation, help-seeking behaviour and indicators of the situational factors causing distress and potentially self-harming/suicide.
