Caring for Life (CFL) is a suicide prevention charity in Singapore that advocates for greater awareness of suicide prevention and promotes a community-based approach to suicide prevention and suicide resilience.
Advocacy
Training
Support
Collaboration
What is Suicide Prevention?
Suicide prevention is not just about intervening when someone is experiencing suicidal thoughts—it starts much earlier.
By addressing the factors that contribute to suicide risk, such as mental health challenges, social isolation, and life stressors, we can create a supportive environment where individuals are less likely to reach a crisis point. Through education, connection, and proactive support, we can build a community that fosters well-being and resilience, ensuring that suicide prevention is embedded in everyday actions, not just crisis responses.
Our Vision:
We envision a future where the community is driven to prevent suicide and become suicide resilient.
Our Mission:
We provide programmes that empower individuals, organizations, and communities in suicide prevention through:
1. Life skills to support early suicide ideation identification and care for others.
2. Life skills to build resilience and reduce suicide risk for oneself.
Invite us to organize talks on how to reduce suicide risk
We can provide expert talks on reducing suicide risk by addressing mental health, social isolation, and life stressors, equipping communities with proactive strategies to foster resilience and well-being.
Learn to spot suicide ideations and prevent a suicide attempt
We offer training to equip participants with skills to recognize early suicide warning signs, listen with empathy, ask directly about suicidal thoughts, and connect at-risk individuals to professional help.
We provide community carer support to those in need.
If you are supporting somebody (a loved one, a friend, or anyone else) who may have suicide ideations, you are a community carer. You can reach out to us for guidance and connect him/her to professional help.
Why Should I Care?
Suicide prevention is a collective responsibility because its impact extends far beyond the individual—it affects entire communities. Each of us has a role to play in recognizing the warning signs, offering support, and fostering open conversations about mental health. Together, we can build a compassionate, suicide-resilient society where lives are saved, and no one has to suffer in silence.
Key statistics to know:
1. Suicide Rates in Singapore: Samaritans of Singapore
2. Suicide Ideation in Singapore: Ipsos World Mental Health Day survey
3. Mental Health Prevalence in Singapore: CNA
4. Singapore’s World Happiness Ranking: CNA
5. Mental Health Among Youths: IMH Media Release
6. Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Youths: National Youth Mental Health Study
7. Social Isolation Among Seniors: CNA
If you have a personal testimony or experience supporting someone struggling with suicidal ideation, we would like to hear from you: general@caringforlifesg.org
more than
3000
community carers trained
more than
90%
of people trained expressed higher confidence in suicide prevention
More than
90%
of our work is in collaboration with another organization.
We are now
5 years
in the suicide prevention scene.
Participants Feedback
CfL is an amazing team. What they do actually saves life. I have seen their passion and dedication, night or day, when they train and when they intervene in situations where all else give up.
The CfL training is amazing. In half a day it makes a ton of a difference…and creates a cycle of ‘pay it forward’.
Keep up the great work Caring for Life team!!!🤗👏👏👏👏
<The workshop> helps me to better understand how to broach the difficult topic of suicide, recognise that bring the issue out in the open is helpful. and to understand the process of supporting someone with suicide ideation.
CFL provided a very genuine and hearfelt training for us to recognized the warning signs of a potential contacts that may succumb to suicide.
Alot of learnings and very real scenarios picked up! A Well-done workshop!👍🏼
Attending the LIFE training with CFL is an eye-opener for me! The dedication of Dr Sally and her team of trainers and volunteers touched the heart of the participants. During the training, we could feel their sincerity in training community carers, so as to build up the capacity of the community and prevent suicide cases together. In the training, we learnt useful acronyms to help us remember what signs and signals to look out for and the steps to care for those who may have suicide intention. Thank you for having such a wonderful curriculum and hope that more people can join us to be trained as a suicide prevention community carer.
Reach out to us.
general@caringforlifesg.org