Zero Suicide Healthcare Training

LivingWorks Start is an interactive, online skills-building training program that teaches suicide prevention skills.

LivingWorks Start teaches people how to be aware of people thinking of suicide, how to ask directly about suicide, to state the seriousness of the situation and help connect them to help.

It is not merely awareness raising, and it is not a flat traditional e-learning module (such as a PowerPoint presentation overlaid with audio commentary). The program is highly interactive and includes engaging audio-visual content, video-based and text/SMS-based practice scenarios.

LivingWorks Start teaches life-saving suicide prevention skills in as little as one hour online. Dynamic, interactive content provides a high-impact learning experience.

It was developed with input from experts in suicide prevention, education, psychology, public health, social work, faith communities, and the military.

Each LivingWorks Start user receives the same core information and skills training, with additional custom content depending on their background, location, and needs.

Like all of LivingWorks' core programs, LivingWorks Start is evidence-based. Learnable in as little as one hour from any computer or mobile device, LivingWorks Start empowers everyone to play a role in saving lives from suicide.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

SafeTALK is a half-day or full-day presentation to increase suicide alertness. This program alerts community members to signs that a person may be considering suicide. It acknowledges that while most people at risk of suicide signal their distress and invite help, these intervention opportunities are often overlooked.

Participants learn to recognise when someone may have thoughts of suicide and to respond in ways that link them with further suicide intervention help. Suicide alert helpers contribute to a suicide safer community.

It is intended that SafeTALK participants will be better prepared to:

• recognise that invitations to help are often overlooked

• move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss and avoid suicide

• notice and respond to situations in which thoughts of suicide may be present

• apply basic TALK steps; Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe

• connect the person with thoughts of suicide to suicide.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

This two-day course is for frontline mental health support workers, and community members who support someone at risk of suicide. Managers and team leaders are also encouraged to attend this course to enhance their understanding of practice issues and to support service outcomes.

• Reduce immediate risk of suicide and increase safety
• Identify risk and protective factors, warning signs and points of change and explore ambivalence
• Develop collaborative care plans
• Recognise the limits of the workers' role, when and how to refer to specialist assistance or facilitate links to further care
• Ensure information related to suicidality is communicated effectively in the workplace
• Stay healthy as a worker - ensure self-care and access to support services.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training increases the knowledge and skills of adults (non-clinicians) to identify the signs and symptoms of common and disabling mental health problems in other adults. Course participants learn how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide mental health first aid in a crisis situation. All of our core MHFA courses include a course component on suicide as part of the course curriculum.

Mental Health First Aid Australia also offer a 4-hour specialised course ‘Conversations About Suicide’. At the completion of this specialised course, participants are equipped with the skills and knowledge to safely have a conversation with a suicidal person. The course teaches participants how to:

• Identify warning signs for suicide;
• Have a conversation with someone experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours;
• Confidently support a person in crisis.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

NOTE: This course is also offered through on on-line classroom (course code QC32 EARS on-line).

QC2: EARS has been designed to develop core clinical competencies and practices that align with the training element of the Zero Suicide framework and is currently being rolled out across 12 Zero Suicide sites across Queensland.

Designed in collaboration with the Gold Coast Hospital and Health service, EARS explores suicide risk across the lifespan and represents a philosophical shift in the treatment of suicidality within Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug services. This includes a shift away from a focus on prediction, towards a framework for prevention and a shift away from clinician orientated treatment of illness, towards a collaborative process of engagement and care planning that conceptualises suicide as a behaviour that requires specific targeted intervention.

The learning outcomes for the course are to:

• understand basic epidemiology of suicide

• recognise the impact of personal values and attitudes about suicide on clinical practice and service systems

• apply skills to build a therapeutic alliance with a person who is suicidal and their family and consider systemic factors impacting on suicidal people and their care

• identify warning signs of suicide and identify static, dynamic, protective and future risk factors

• apply the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE) framework to assess a consumer's suicidal ideation, planning, behaviours, desire and intent

• apply the Integrated Motivational Volitional model of suicidal behaviour to assessment, safety and care planning practice

• write a prevention orientated-risk formulation

• develop collaborative safety plan and care plan for suicidality.

FREE to Queensland Health staff or $250 non-Queensland Health staff

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

NOTE: Face to face training is currently limited due to CO-VID 19. This course is also offered through on on-line classroom (course code QC35 YEARS on-line) and is currently FREE for all learners.

QC28: YEARS is a youth adaption of the EARS framework that been designed to develop core clinical competencies and practices that align with the training element of the Zero Suicide framework.

YEARS explores youth specific issues in the assessment and management of suicide risk, including specific developmental and systemic factors impacting treatment of young people. The course has been extensively rolled out throughout Children's Health Queensland (CHQ) as part of the Gen Z project. Gen Z is a co-designed youth specific adaptation of the Zero Suicide framework being implemented by CHQ and has been recently been updated with learning from the initial roll out and contains resources that have been co-designed by the Gen Z team at CHQ to support safety planning and parent education.

The learning outcomes for the course are to:

• understand basic epidemiology of youth suicide

• recognise the impact of personal values and attitudes about suicide on clinical practice and service systems

• apply skills to build a therapeutic alliance with a young person who is suicidal and their family and consider systemic factors impacting on suicidal young people and their care

• identify warning signs of suicide and identify static, dynamic, protective and future risk factors

• apply the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE) framework to assess a young person's suicidal ideation, planning, behaviours, desire and intent

• apply the Integrated Motivational Volitional model of suicidal behaviour to assessment, safety and care planning

• write a prevention orientated-risk formulation

• develop a collaborative safety plan and person-centred care plan for suicidality.

FREE to Queensland Health staff or $250 non-Queensland Health staff

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

The SafeSide Framework provides leaders, clinicians, and peers with a map of best practices in Zero Suicide Healthcare - a common language and framework to guide service design, communication, and care delivery. Covering all the care elements of Zero Suicide (identify, engage, treat, and transition), the Framework will organise your thinking and communication with colleagues and the people you serve, and help you document your actions and decisions. Evidence-informed, person-centred, and practical–we go beyond merely keeping people safe to support for full recovery and empowerment.

Co-taught by psychologist, Dr. Tony Pisani (author of prevention-oriented risk formulation) and a suicide attempt survivor, Kristina Mossgraber, the framework comes to life in video-based teaching from these two perspectives and skill demonstrations by doctors, nurses, therapists, and support workers.

Without travel or hassle, teams work together through three hours of video-guided learning - all at once or in briefer segments. Clinicians who formulate risk complete an additional hour of specialised learning (Pisani et al 2016). All staff take away tactics, tips, and wording they can use immediately and continue learning and contributing through optional monthly video calls and new modules added throughout the year. New staff and trainees onboard with Zero Suicide attitudes, skills, and mission as soon as they start.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

SafeSide Primary CARE provides a framework for responding to suicide concerns within the time and resource constraints of primary care. Training focuses not only on what to do, but how to do it. Co-taught by a primary care psychologist, Dr. Tony Pisani and a suicide attempt survivor, Kristina Mossgraber, the framework comes to life in video-based teaching from these two perspectives and brief skill demonstrations by real primary care doctors, nurses, and care staff. Evidence-informed, person-centred, and practical–we go beyond merely keeping people safe toward supporting full recovery and empowerment in the context of the brief but repeated and meaningful visits, consumers have with the primary healthcare team.

Training is practical, research based, flexible and sustainable. In three 50-minute video-guide group sessions, you’ll get tactics, tips, and phrasing you can use immediately. Training can be conducted on your team’s schedule; new providers, trainees, and staff can onboard any time.

SafeSide Primary CARE pairs well with SafeSide’s other programs for regions or health systems that wish to unite the health and mental health workforce with a common framework and approach Zero Suicide.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

How can you keep teams with diverse roles, settings, and experience levels on the same page? SafeSide-Youth Services provides leaders and staff with a common language and framework for Zero Suicide–a map of best practices. Covering all the care elements of Zero Suicide, the Framework will organize your thinking and communication. Evidence-informed, person-centered, and practical-we go beyond merely keeping youth safe to support full recovery, maturity, and empowerment.

Co-taught by a paediatric psychologist/family therapist, Dr. Tony Pisani and suicide attempt survivor, Kristina Mossgraber, the framework comes to life in video-based teaching from these two perspectives and skill demonstrations by therapists and youth support workers.

Without travel or hassle, teams work together through 3 hours of video-guided learning–all at once or in briefer segments. Clinicians who formulate risk complete an additional hour of specialized learning (Pisani et al 2016).

All staff take away tactics, tips, and wording they can use immediately...AND continue learning through optional monthly video calls and new modules added throughout the year. New staff and trainees onboard as soon as they start. Every staff person in your organisation deserve to be equipped and supported for their critical role in protecting young lives.

Please note: Training programs listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia nor Life in Mind.

Our workshops are designed to teach people how to identify the signs that someone may be at risk of suicide and appropriate action to take. Effective interventions can make a real difference and save lives.

All Wesley LifeForce Facilitators are accredited trainers and have completed suicide intervention training. Many are also accredited counsellors.

Overall training goals:

• Identify people who may be at risk of suicide

• Communicate appropriately with a suicidal person

• Ask a person if they are considering suicide

• Conduct a suicide intervention

Training outcomes:

Session 1:

• Awareness of the requirements for classification of a death as suicide

• Understand that suicidal ideation and planning are not linear processes

• Knowledge of the occurrence and demographics of suicide in Australia

Session 2:

• List common barriers to helping a suicidal person including your own beliefs and attitudes

• Be able to identify risk and protective factors

• Differentiate between risk factors and warning signs

• Recognise the association between loss and suicidality

• Understand the cascade of events that can lead to thoughts of suicide

Session 3:

• Capability to be able to implement the SALT suicide intervention strategy

• Identify national and local suicide prevention resources

• Understand the importance of self-care and be able to implement self-care strategies