Alison Armstrong is currently the Director of Training and Development for the National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Training having previously worked in the Alcohol and Drug field for 17 years. She is a highly innovative, community focused and performance driven individual offering 20+ years' experience working within both the private and voluntary sector. Possessing additional experience facilitating youth engagement and empowerment programmes and successfully designing & managing the delivery and the development of training and has personally trained over 3000 people in Suicide Intervention. She is a mother and a grandmother and currently lives in Northern Ireland.