Safety Plan vs Safe Life Guide

Safety Plan is here to help you make a plan for dealing with thoughts of suicide and self-harm. The app will walk you through filling out the 6 steps of a safety plan, share your safety plan with your loved ones, and use your safety plan in a moment of crisis. The app also includes audio and interactive tools to help you calm down, information for you and your loved ones about safety plans and suicide, mood tracking, and ready access to crisis support. Safety Plan is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs app, developed by the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.

Safe Life Guide provides people with the tools to stay safe and navigate a suicidal crisis as well as build resilience for the future. HOPE digitises the evidence based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. You will explore and connect with your values and use them with the people and pursuits that that truly matter to you. The framework will walk you through values guided committed actions and build resilience and strengthen reasons for living. SAFE will provide your personalised situation specific safety plan and if you follow through the steps of the distress ladder you will know exactly what to do when you are feeling on edge, or in crisis, or amid an emergency. The HABIT framework will provide tools to be at your personal best by creating simple repeatable steps in line with the identity that you aspire to. You will also find a mood diary, alcohol log, medication history, safety tracker to note urges to self-harm or suicide and a reflective journal. All of this is free. For professionals who support people in suicidal distress, the annual subscription of Safe Life Guide provides a wealth of resources. They will have access to the full PROTECT training and all its derivates (LIFE, PEARLS, 1-2-7, 7 Safe Steps). This includes digital books, and access to the Progress Guide video library. Professionals can also use the safety documentation suite to write safety formulations and create collaborative safety plans to share with patients, families and other professionals involved in the person’s care.