National Student Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Framework

This document outlines a national framework within which Ireland’s higher education system can address the issues of student mental health and suicide prevention in a structured and planned way. The framework has been developed as part of the Higher Education Authority’s commitment to play its part within the wider context of the Department of Health’s Connecting for Life – Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020. In particular, the HEA is committed to developing ‘national guidelines for HEIs in relation to suicide risk and critical incident response, thereby helping to address any gaps which might exist in the prevention of suicide in higher education’.