Jordans Space with Steve Phillip: Steve &the team talk with Debi Roberts, CEO of The OLLIE Foundation

On this episode of Jordan's Space, Steve and the team from The Jordan Legacy we're speaking with Debi Roberts, CEO of The OLLIE Foundation, a charity that funds suicide intervention skills training for adults and organisations (including schools) working with young people.
Debi had a successful career, working with Hertfordshire County Council,taking lead roles, and developing a number of different projects aimed at supporting young people.5 years ago, an experience with the family of a young girl who was suicidal, made Debi decide to try a totally different approach to the usual safeguarding approaches she had learnt during her career to date. Although this approach was not in line with the Council's safeguarding policy, Debi's says: "I didn't care. I knew this worked and I wasn't going to lose another young person to suicide!". Not only did this young person no longer feel suicidal afterwards, her family reported that she was now thriving in life.

Debi says that all roads led her to her being invited to join The Ollie Foundation, working alongside parents who have been bereaved by suicide.