Suicide Prevention Training | Huonville

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 Language Guide – Suicide, 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;
• Increase individuals’ and communities’ capacity to reduce suicide.