Alice Hendy tragically lost her brother, Josh, on the 25th November 2020 to suicide. Josh was her only sibling, and passed away at just 21 years of age.

Alice’s day job involves working in IT and Cyber Security for QBE insurance, with experience working for global financial institutions and insurance firms in the city of London.

After examining Josh’s phone and laptop following his death, Alice found that Josh had been researching techniques to take his own life via internet searches, suicide forums and video tutorials. To ensure more help and support is given to individuals in mental health crisis and searching for harmful content online, Alice set up R;pple Suicide Prevention.

R;pple is a digital tool, which if a user searches for harmful content online, they will first be guided through a filter of breathing exercises and then very simple, uncluttered and calmly presented strategies and forums, help lines and mental health services they can access both now and longer term: accompanied with messages of hope and encouragement to keep safe.

• To date, Alice’s technology has been downloaded over 700,000 times, with schools, colleges, universities, parents, carers, and charities able to download R;pple, free of charge
• R;pple has been ‘triggered’ over 3,000 times, meaning her tech has intercepted 3,000 people from harmful online searches.
• 24 external individuals have approached R;pple to inform us that the tool intercepting them online at their most vulnerable point has saved their life and that they are now receiving mental health support.
• R;pple has won 17 prestigious awards in the mental health and innovation space
• R;pple has gained significant National media coverage (including Sky News, BBC Breakfast, BBC News , GB News and The Telegraph), reaching over 8.5 million people

For more information, please visit the R;pple website at www.ripplesuicideprevention.com

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