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Evidence hub for suicide prevention in India

System Design Illustration for BOTNAR foundation

First of its kind evidence hub for suicide prevention in India: The project creates an open source repository of data, knowledge and resources that have effectively helped reduce risk of self-harm and suicide as a collective learning initiative to address the issue around youth suicide in India  

The Idea
The project will build a smartphone based application to help reduce the risk of suicide and attempted  suicide  among students in higher education in India (ages 16 to 24). The app will be co-created with youth to include a suite of tools that promote safety and wellbeing through 
Public Engagement Platform for Mental Health Awareness and Safe Care
Safety Planning to reduce risk of self-harm and suicide
 Crisis Response System to manage high risk of self harm and suicide
Project carried out Quicksand Design Studio
Evidence hub for suicide prevention in India
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