In Switzerland, suicide is the leading cause of
death among 15 to 24-year-olds. Every three
to four days, a young person takes their own life.
aiRe d'ados
In 2014, the HUG and Children Action initiated the creation of aiRe d'ados, a collective that brings together nearly 50 health and social professionals.
aiRe d'ados provides resources in response to the public health problem of suicide and risky behaviour among young people aged 13 to 25 living in the canton of Geneva. As a prevention tool, aiRe d'ados promotes multiple partnerships to weave a safety net around young people at risk. It also develops new approaches to flexible and reactive care.
Click4help
In Geneva, many structures offer a wide range of help and resources for young people aged 12 to 25, their families, and the professionals who work with them. Children Action has listed them on the click4help.ch website, which makes it possible to find the information or help you need among hundreds of structures in just a few clicks.
MALATAVIE Prevention
Fight against youth suicide
Suicides can be avoided. Responsiveness, accessibility and continuity of care are essential to prevent suicide and suicide attempts.
Suicide prevention
MALATAVIE
crisis unit
Geneva
In order to fight the terrible scourge of suicide among young people in Switzerland, Children Action, in collaboration with the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), created the MALATAVIE crisis unit in 1996.
Focusing on care and prevention, MALATAVIE, thanks to a multidisciplinary team, offers various forms of care (inpatient and outpatient) and prevention to encourage encounters with young people in distress and provide them with the most appropriate response.
MALATAVIE is today an internationally renowned center
The House of the Child and the Adolescent - MEA is a unique concept in Europe, offering a complete chain of care in one place (outpatient clinics, day clinics, and hospital beds) while integrating culture, arts, and sciences.
The brainchild of Professor François Ansermet, a member of the Board of Trustees of Children Action and then Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of the HUG, the MEA aims to offer a new vision of child and adolescent psychiatry, which is too often stigmatized.
Understanding the medical and societal challenges of the project, Children Action, a long-standing partner of the Geneva University Hospitals, played a leading role in the vision and implementation of the MEA. Its commitment from the outset, both financially and in terms of reflection, has enabled the MEA to become a reality and the HUG to mobilize to extend the public-private partnership with the substantial contribution of another local foundation.
LIFE is the result of a public-private partnership between the Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich (PUK) and Children Action.
Opening its doors on October 3, 2022, this care and prevention center for suicidal youth in the Canton of Zurich is designed after the model of MALATAVIE. LIFE offers adolescents aged 13 to 18, in suicidal or depressive crisis or suffering:
• an inpatient crisis care unit
• a daycare unit
• an outpatient intensive care unit
• a prevention and early treatment unit
LIFE favors a resource-oriented approach that promotes the development of each patient’s personal potential.
In numbers
since 1996