The ASC concept
Assistant, Support and Care (ASC) is a digital support concept associated with the wider RESUME programme.
What is ASC?
The concept explores whether a simple digital resource could help people access personally meaningful support at difficult moments. Proposed elements include a personal safety plan, chosen coping resources and connections with trusted supporters.
ASC is presented here as a direction for future development and evaluation. This page does not offer an app download or access to a monitored support service.
What would need to be evaluated?
Any future study would need to establish feasibility, acceptability, safeguarding and data protection arrangements, and assess benefits and possible harms. No claim is made here that ASC predicts or prevents suicide.
How Crisis Narrative can inform future work
The fellowship asks what nurses experience during crises, what support they value and where opportunities to help arise. Those findings can inform decisions about whether, and how, a digital approach should be developed.
Further development and evaluation would require a separate research plan, appropriate approvals, involvement and funding.
