Dr Arthur Cassidy from Portadown has just returned from a two-day learning and teaching session in the Welsh town, and Pastor Mark Thomas from the Baptist Church in Bridgend is coming to Portadown in April to help set up the network between the suicide hot spots.
Within the last year, there have been some 19 suicides in Bridgend, with around 14 in the North Armagh area.
Dr Cassidy gave lectures at the Atlantic College in Bridgend during his two-day tour, as well as studying the Samaritans' 'Feet on the Street' project and the community work done by Pastor Thomas' street project.
He also addressed the local Samaritans' annual meeting during a hectic 48-hour schedule.
He said: "Our academic experience here in Portadown - studying the reasons for suicides and the 'cluster' mentality - can be of great help to Bridgend.
"Pastor Thomas's street project is similar to our 'Creation' ministry caravan and the work being done at night by First Portadown Presbyterian Church.
"And we could do well to replicate the excellent 'Feet on the Street' work by the Samaritans over there. They have done superb work in convincing young people that the Samaritans are not just for older people.
"It has to be said, though, that - just as here - the statutory agencies are dealing in theories and not practicalities - they are mainly nine-to-five people and are simply not getting into the heart of the communities and to the heart of the matter.
"Young people simply do not present themselves to the authorities like the police, social services and hospitals - they would rather deal with voluntary agencies who are out seeking them - agencies that the young people can tap into."
He added: "Studies show that a cluster of suicides comprises of anything from three to 11 young people taking their own lives, often through compulsion, feeling they are a burden on society or through the contageous copy-cat effect, when their peers commit suicides and they are featured on the internet."
After Pastor Thomas visits Portadown, Dr Cassidy will be returning to Bridgend to continue the co-operation between the two areas, and they will expand the project, with the voluntary and statutory agencies hopefully developing a mutual strategy.