The 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention has opened today in Derry, and runs until the weekend.
The conference, under the title “Breaking Down Walls & Building Bridges” brings academics, practitioners and others together to discuss the latest thinking in suicide prevention, and how it can be implemented in a way that helps those at risk.
Dr Rory O’Connor is the Vice President of the association, and is a native of Derry.
He says this is the biggest conference the city has ever hosted, and the event has the potential to make a very real difference across the whole region…………
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