The Caritas online suicide prevention programme [U25] of the diocese of Mainz has been officially launched today. This brings to 14 the number of peer-to-peer advisory centres in Germany. “With our three points in Mainz, Worms and Rüsselsheim, we consciously invest in supporting young people in crisis and thus contribute to the protection of life”, the diocesan director of Caritas, Nicola Adick, stated at the ceremony for the opening of Caritas premises in Mainz: twelve young volunteers are being trained to provide online support to their peers. Volunteers are trained and supported by full-time staff. “As the Caritas association of the diocese of Mainz and with the diocese of Mainz, at first we will fund the development of such service from our own resources”, the director of diocesan Caritas centre, Freisberg, said. The president of Caritas Germany, Eva Welskop-Deffaa, stated: “Suicide is the main cause of death among young people. [U25] is a suicide prevention programme that is specifically targeted to such age group. I am very glad that, with the new premises of the diocesan Caritas association in the diocese of Mainz, we are expanding our peer-to-peer advisory services for young people at risk of suicide to 14 centres across the country. At the same time, we urgently ask the Federal Health Minister to finalise the announced suicide prevention law as soon as possible. Such law must create the legal framework required for reliable and specific suicide-prevention programmes for the target groups, for both old and young people, taking as much care of methodological restrictions as of a better access to psychosocial consultancy”.