FirstSigns

As we approach the end of another Self-Injury Awareness Day (in the UK anyway, some of our global friends are still very much in day-time!) I wonder what has changed, and what has it meant for you? I know that for LifeSIGNS and for Wedge and I it’s the culmination of many hours hard work, [...]

Today is SIAD, or Self-Injury Awareness Day. All over the globe people and groups will be raising awareness about this difficult subject and at FirstSigns / LifeSIGNS we have been busy preparing for several weeks.
Wedge has worked hard on our SIAD page and spent a great deal of time giving quotes to the media (it’s [...]

Self-Injury Awareness Day approaches and we’ve got free posters and factsheets for you to email around and print off.

We’d like to hear from people from within the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community about self-injury.
We have the chance to feature in a magazine that champions diversity and the BME community.
So, we’d like to ask if you, as a member of the BME community, if you’d be willing to provide a quote about your [...]

Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.

After several months discussing our plans and ideas for a book for FirstSigns, the actual writing of it has finally arrived! This week Wedge and I will be working together and writing several thousand words a day, so that we can publish the book in time for SIAD 2010.
As with many things it’s the ‘getting [...]

Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) is the 1st of March, 2010. That means that we’ll sell loads of SI Awareness wristbands and keyrings in February.
Which is great! I mean, it’s just fantastic to think so many people will be wearing our wristbands through March – it makes us proud of our members and supporters, and really [...]

We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever.

One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us with [...]

We had a great response to SIAD this year and many of you have contacted us, letting us know what you did and how the information on our website helped you. Some of you wanted your endeavours to remain private, and we respect that and thank you. Others were happy for the events of [...]

Self-injury awareness day is an international event occurring annually on 1st March. The last week of February is crucial to the success of SIAD, so thank you to all our members and everybody who is raising awareness.
There’s still a couple of days to go, so it’s not too late to get involved. They’ll be loads [...]