Read more about the studies and tools we are currently working on.
BackUp is a app that provides suicide prevention information, tools and crisis resources to support and guide individuals (and their caregivers) when they are experiencing suicidal thoughts.
The app is available in Belgium and the Netherlands. BackUp is currently being updated.
The ‘postvention’ project is developing a toolkit for various settings and organisations to provide support in the first few hours and days following a suicide.
As part of the Flemish Education Impact Programme, VLESP is working with other prevention partners to develop an integrated policy framework for health and wellbeing in primary and secondary education.
With Happy Snacks 2.0, we are developing a renewed and extended version of Happy Snacks: short, accessible teaching methods designed to help primary school pupils develop their social and emotional skills.
Through this project, we are researching how we can improve the mental wellbeing of people approaching or already in retirement. We want people to find access to support that genuinely contributes to a positive and healthy transition into retirement.
In this project, we are developing a new version of the online self-help course 'Think Life', adapted to the needs of people with autism, and their health care professionals.
In collaboration with the Centrum ter Preventie van Zelfdoding (Centre for Suicide Prevention), we are working on a number of studies looking at data of the suicide helpline 'Zelfmoordlijn 1813'.
