The Willow Project
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
The Willow Project
Preventing suicide in children and young people
2019
East Midlands
I am CEO of NW Counselling Hub CIC based in Lincoln, covering Lincolnshire and beyond. We provide therapy for people aged from four years to those aged over 80. We also train people to become therapists. I feel extremely honoured to be a Churchill Fellow.
My Fellowship in 2019 was to explore suicide prevention in young people. I travelled to Australia and New Zealand to see good practice that we can learn from and implement here in the UK.
Suicide prevention is an issue I am hugely passionate about, as sadly we see a lot of young people in our hub who have suicidal ideation and intention. With the rise in suicidal behaviours in the UK in 2018, I knew I needed to do something about it. I heard the CEO of Roses in the Ocean speak at the NSPA conference and was inspired to see the good work happening overseas, including lived experience as a pivotal turning point to help shape services.
Following my Fellowship I have held a suicide-awareness conference, the first in Lincolnshire, I have launched a young person's suicide prevention group and I sit on suicide prevention boards within Lincolnshire. The impact my Fellowship has had on my community is saving lives and growing awareness – suicide is everyone's business.
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2021
Counsellor Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska (CF 2019) presented at the National Suicide Prevention Alliance conference on 27 January. Naomi shared learnings from her Fellowship, which explored best practice in suicide prevention.
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2022
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2022
Counsellor Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska (CF 2019) presented at the East Midlands NHS Conference on Suicide Prevention in Young People and at the Bee Inspired in Manchester event this month. Naomi discussed learnings from her Fellowship, which explored best practice in suicide prevention.
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2021
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By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2021
Counsellor Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska (CF 2019) presented at the National Suicide Prevention Alliance conference on 27 January. Naomi shared learnings from her Fellowship, which explored best practice in suicide prevention.
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2022
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2022
Counsellor Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska (CF 2019) presented at the East Midlands NHS Conference on Suicide Prevention in Young People and at the Bee Inspired in Manchester event this month. Naomi discussed learnings from her Fellowship, which explored best practice in suicide prevention.
By Naomi Watkins-Ligudzinska, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.