The Public Initiative for the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm (PIPS)

PIPs - Before

PIPs - After

About the Project

The PIPS project was one element of the Increasing Community Services cluster project which sought to increase community provision in areas of deprivation in the SIF Belfast North zone.  The investment from SIF allowed extensive improvements to the PIPS facility (focusing on suicide and self harm prevention) on the Antrim Road, Belfast, which enhanced and extended the building to increase capacity. Additions included a dedicated family room, therapy room and counselling suites allowing PIPS to offer a new drop-in facility offering extended ‘clinic’ style support such as debt, housing, employment readiness, health and well-being, diet and nutrition, and drugs and alcohol awareness as well as family work and counselling to help meet the demands and needs of families and individuals in the local community.

Progress to date

The PIPS Project has completed construction and is operational.  The new refurbishments have allowed PIPS to make full use of its premises and provide valuable, effective advice, flexible counselling and vital mental health support services and therapies that are available and accessible to meet the needs of everyone in the whole community and wider SIF Belfast North Zone.

Impacts

Monitoring and evaluation of all Social Investment Fund projects is carried out using “Outcomes Based Accountability” (OBA). Where SIF has funded capital works, the project provides quarterly “post-capital” data for a period of 3 years which details the positive impacts enabled by the capital works undertaken. The final capital infographic below highlights some of the key impacts of the project to date. The Public Initiative for the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm (PIPS) project is in the early stages of post capital OBA returns and OBA data collection is ongoing for the final post capital infographic.

Final Capital infographic