Zero Suicide Healthcare Training

While counsellors already have an understanding of the risk factors of suicide, its prevalence in the community makes it important that they stay informed by current thinking. This comprehensive suicide prevention workshop is based on the latest data and research. It is designed to refresh skills and further develop simple intervention techniques and strategies. Upon completion, participants will be provided with a certificate to go towards annual CPD requirements.

This workshop is suitable for counsellors, social workers, family therapists, mediators, psychologists and any other professional whose role involves counselling.

The aim of this free online training is to:

• enable people to identify when someone is presenting with suicidal thoughts/behaviour
• be able to speak out in a supportive manner
• empower them to signpost the individual to the correct services or support.

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.

Connecting with People Training aims to offer a whole-organisation approach to improving responses to people at risk of suicide. Content reflects evidence-based principles, best practice: co-produced and peer-reviewed by people with lived experience, academics, practitioners and NGOs. We promote a shift from risk prediction (to allocate/exclude care) towards a compassionate, holistic, trauma-informed and collaborative approach.

We, prioritise safety and learning of delegates, emphasising self-care and safetyplaning for all. The content and facilitation/training styles, reduce unconscious barriers, tackle stigma and improve compassion whilst targeting competences (knowledge, skills, and confidence). The training is not diagnosis driven, therefore suitable for all audiences (not just specialists), so facilitates understanding and communication across sectors/care pathways.

Community and professional versions of selected modules increase applicability, credibility, and engagement to provide tailored competencies/skills for different levels of expertise/roles, whilst maintaining key principles: compassion, collaboration and governance. SAFETool Assessment and Safetyplanning supports clinicians and consumers by facilitating collaborative triage, assessment, risk mitigation, and safetyplaning.

Multiple formats available: face-to-face, remote webinar, smaller group direct-to-participant/ conference, online e-learning.

• Compassion at Work

• Emotional Resilience (adult/youth versions)

• Emotional Resilience for Professionals

• Community Suicide Awareness

• Suicide Awareness for Professionals

• Suicide Response Part1

• Suicide Response Part2

• Primary Care Suicide Awareness/Response

• Self-Harm Awareness

• Self-Harm Response

• Suitable for the general public, including children over the age of 13, health and social care practitioners and professionals
• Enhances delegates’ emotional literacy

• Challenges stigma around emotional distress and tackles barriers to help-seeking
• Uses ‘watercourse analogy’ to help delegates understand different levels of distress
• Shares effective self-help strategies suitable for different levels of distress
• Uses the ‘sunflower analogy’ to help delegates understand wellbeing and resilience
• Shares practical ways to develop and maintain emotional wellbeing and promotes the importance of this
• Equips delegates to have a greater emotional literacy and know how to enhance their resilience (not mental toughness)
• Equips delegates with positive ways to cope with stress or emotional distress, to develop a personal plan to build their wellbeing and know where to access further support if they ever need help in the future
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how to use StayingSafe.net to make their own Safety Plan

• Suitable for the public, including children over the age of 13, non-clinical health and social care practitioners, first responders, Govt and Public Service workers, educationalists, students, community groups and NGOs
• Enhances delegates’ emotional literacy
• Challenges stigma around emotional distress and tackles barriers to help-seeking
• Uses ‘watercourse analogy’ to help delegates understand different levels of distress
• Shares effective self-help strategies suitable for different levels of distress
• Uses the ‘sunflower analogy’ to help delegates understand wellbeing and resilience
• Shares practical ways to develop and maintain emotional wellbeing and promotes the importance of this
• Equips delegates to have a greater emotional literacy and know how to enhance their resilience (not mental toughness)
• Equips delegates with positive ways to cope with stress or emotional distress, to develop a personal plan to build their wellbeing and know where to access further support if they ever need help in the future
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how to use StayingSafe.net to make their own Safety Plan

• Develops understanding and compassion
• Tackles myths, stigma and barriers
• Introduces concept that suicide is not inevitable – people can be helped, and module includes the latest research and evidence
• Suitable for ALL i.e. community members with no previous training
• Helps delegates understand how distress develops and how people can be best supported
• Develops common language between community, services and those in distress
• Gives delegates the confidence and the skills practice of talking to someone in distress
• Develops a compassionate approach for demanding and time-pressured environments
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how to use www.StayingSafe.net to make their own Safety Plan

• Suicide prevention and awareness

• Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques

• Collaborative safety planning for suicide

• Family, caregiver, and community supports

• Promotes a role for ALL in suicide prevention.

• Concise 1.5hr delivery time for busy professionals with a role in health and social care or as a first responder.

• Develops understanding and compassion.

• Introduces concept that suicide is not inevitable – and highlights importance of ambivalence, compassion, hope and interruption

• Develops common language between communities, services and those in distress.

• Develops a compassionate approach for demanding and time-pressured environments.

• Equips delegates to use the resources provided to signpost to appropriate support.

• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how make their own Safety Plan.

• For professionals with an assessment role. Underpinned by evidence-based principles, academic literature and lived experience.

• Facilitates a compassionate, collaborative detailed person-centered assessment, triage, and immediate response for busy professionals

• Promotes the assessment of somebody at risk of suicide as an opportunity for a therapeutic intervention

• Understand how attitudes in healthcare impact on care of patients with suicidal thoughts

• Deepen understanding of assessing suicidal thoughts

• Deepen understanding of the limitations of research based demographic risk factors

• Deepen understanding of the value of diligently Identifying risk factors in order to intervene to reduce/mitigate risk

• Equips usage of SAFETool™ via case-based learning

• Delegates develop skills and confidence instilling hope and co-producing Safety Plans

SAFETool™ Overview

• SAFETool- is not a risk prediction tool

• SAFETool does not tell clinicians what to do but offers a reminder of available options – forming an intelligent recording template/aide memoire which supports clinician decision making

• SAFETool™ assessments can help facilitate effective referral, providing a consistent communication format between different care providers and across different teams and services

• A desktop reminder of the training, which embeds training into clinical practice

• SAFETool also includes a Safety Plan template: strategies to deal with distress, suicidal thoughts, ways to make a situation safer, explicit removal or mitigation of means, emotional and social support, informal and NGO telephone/online support, healthcare and crisis support

• Situations and suicide risk fluctuate; SAFETool allows for this

• SAFETool is peer reviewed by international experts, people with lived experience, practitioners and NGO experts

• SAFETool offers potential to undertake audit post training, embedding-in quality improvement plans

• Develops a collaborative and transparent approach to mitigating suicide risk

• Promotes a collaborative and compassionate person-centred assessment of someone at risk of suicide – rather than a ‘tick box’ exercise
• At the end of the module participants will be able to create a comprehensive, person-centred bio-psychosocial suicide mitigation plan
• Practical ways to instill authentic hope in a busy clinical environment and how to increase your patient’s resilience to suicidal thoughts
• Understand the value and importance of social support mapping
• Collaboratively engage in a comprehensive social support mapping exercise and be able to coproduce a Social Support Map
• Facilitates a collaborative and transparent approach

• Explore the myths and stigma associated with self-harm and share fresh thinking

• Understand the range of coping mechanisms when facing challenging life events.

• Understand the prevalence of self-harm.

• Be aware of research on self-harm including the link to suicide.

• Understand reasons why people self-harm.

• Learn about the biological and psychological effects of self-harm on an individual.

• Compassionate ways to support someone who uses self-harm as a coping mechanism.

• Supporting people to find safer ways to deal with distress to support recovery from self-harm.

• Be aware of resources available to support someone who self-harms.