The LifeSIGNS SIA Booklet 2004 is now available! The final and approved version has a Foreword by Dr Neil Burley, MB ChB, Psychiatrist and is aimed at Health Care Workers, Family, Friends and Teachers of People Who Harm Themselves, and self injurers themselves.

It is available in an A5 spiral bound 30 page booklet for the sum of £3 (£2.50 to LifeSIGNS members) by paying via paypal at the bottom of this page and emailing your address and the paypal transaaction ID to lifesigns@selfharm.org A Paypal transaction ID look something like: ID Number 8Y376290FP3171619

Please note that if purchasing the SIA Booklet for an organisation then the price is £10

$ Dollars and £ Pounds are welcomeed by Paypal.

If you have any payment queries please email lifesigns@selfharm.org

You may also Download the SIA Booklet for free, please note that it needs to be printed on A5 paper, not the usual A4.

Self Injury Awareness Booklet

The Word Document is 165Kb, the PDf is 320Kb, the OpenOffice file is 76Kb

 

---

A LifeSIGNS member has had the idea to write to their MP, perhaps we could all contact our local Members of Parliament and ask that they raise SI Awareness.

 

Kirsty Writes:

I've been contacting local and national newspapers in a bid to raise awareness of SIAD.

I also contacted my local MSP (being Scottish!), Dennis Canavan, who has agreed to wear a ribbon on the parliamentary session nearest to SIAD. This got me thinking and I thought that if as many self injurers as possible contacted their local MP to ask if they would wear a ribbon on SIAD, then it increases the profile of self injury and provides promotion of SIAD.

The Letter

Dear Sir,

Current statistics from the Samaritans are that 1 in 10 teenagers engage in self injury. But that is only the figure of the people who admit to it. This is a staggeringly large number of young people who choose a destructive coping strategy. The number of adults who self injure, following on from this, is also high, estimated at 160,000 people. (Statistics based on UK data.)

From this it is clear that self injury is an issue that not only needs
addressing, but also education in an attempt to lessen stigma. Many self injury groups in the UK, following suit from USA, have adopted 1st March as Self Injury Awareness Day (SIAD).

This awareness day, however, is virtually unknown within the UK and needs promotion. In attempting to do this I have contacted several local and national newspapers as well as yourself.

Self injury is so terribly misunderstood and sufferers are affected by a tremendous amount of stigma. So, as a person who has self injured and as a person who is attempting to raise awareness, in the capacity that one person can, I'm asking you for support in
raising awareness of SIAD.

I appreciate that you are an incredibly busy person and have many other responsibilities so am not asking for a huge commitment from you, but if you were perhaps able to mention SIAD or perhaps wear a ribbon (red and black for injurers, white and orange for other concerned parties) it would be greatly
appreciated by self injurers!

Thank you, so much, for taking the time to read this mail and thank you for taking the time to at least consider some of the points within this mail.

Yours

 

 

www.selfinjury.org/siadbb/index.php

The one and only message board to arrange SIAD