Please note this session is aimed at 12-18 year olds.

Persons under 18 must be accompanied by a support person

Training Aim

This training is designed to provide individuals and communities with the essential skills and resources required to identify and respond to a person at risk of suicide and build on a communities capacity to eliminate suicide.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this training participants will be able to:

Use the language given in the National Communications Charter: Suicide Language Guide, to have safe and respectful conversations around suicide;
Recognise the warning signs of suicide;
Identify and develop personal self-care strategies;
Promote help-seeking behaviour before a crisis occurs;
Identify and promote protective factors;
Identify how to support a person at risk to access appropriate services and to develop their own safety plan.