Welcome to our new website. We’re celebrating 40 years of delivering self-harm support shaped by the people we work with. You told us support needs to be easier to find, easier to access and feel less exposing – this is part of that change. Read more about our change from Self Injury Support to Sift.

Resources for Health & Care Workers

Self-Harm Information and Guides

Practical Self-Harm Resources

Here are some useful resources for supporting people that self-harm, designed for health and care workers. We’re always working on adding new resources that are trauma-informed and shaped by people with lived experience. If there’s something you’d like to see here which isn’t already, drop us an email at [email protected].

If you’re interested in arranging further self-harm awareness training for your team, visit our Training page. To hear about lived experiences of self-harm, you can read our News and Stories.

Why do people self-harm?

A helpful guide to understanding some of the reasons for self-harm. There are many reasons someone might self-harm. Those reasons can change over time. What

What is self-harm?

A guide to understanding self-harm, for you or someone you care about. Please be aware this resource mentions ways people harm themselves. What do we mean