Zero Suicide Healthcare Training
This directory has been developed in collaboration with Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia to support the training of staff within healthcare systems providing care to those who may be experiencing suicidal behaviours.
Please contact zsia@zerosuicide.com.au to add training programs that may be appropriate to this directory.
Learn more about the Zero Suicide Healthcare Framework and the elements of Zero Suicide Healthcare.
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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.
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Psychiatry
Focus Area
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying risk factors for suicide
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Suicide prevention and awareness
Course Type
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Zero Suicide Alliance
by Zero Suicide Alliance

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.
ZSH Element
- Train
Audience
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Peer Support Worker
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Suicide prevention and awareness
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
Cost
- Fee for service
Location
- National
Connecting with People Training
by 4 Mental Health

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
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Creating a safe physical environment for patients at risk of suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide screening practices
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Compassion at Work
by 4 Mental Health

- Definition of compassion and the 6 attributes of compassion
- Increases understanding of the key components of compassion, the barriers and how to maintain a compassionate approach at work
- Basic neuroscience of compassion and the science that supports the physical and emotional benefits of a compassionate approach
- Introduction the impact of early years, genetic, occupational and environmental factors
- Self-compassion and positive outcomes including compassion to others
- Introduction to the 3 emotional systems
- Impact of organisational culture on compassion
- Each participant will develop a plan to sustain a compassionate approach at work
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Creating a safe physical environment for patients at risk of suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Staff roles and responsibilities within the work environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide risk formulation practices
- Suicide screening practices
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
- Understanding and navigating ethical and legal considerations
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Emotional Resilience
by 4 Mental Health

- 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
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Engage
- Treat
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Emotional Resilience for Professionals
by 4 Mental Health

- Suitable for ‘non-professionals’ as a follow on to the Emotional Resilience Module
• Know more about the importance of regularly investing in resilience and emotional wellbeing.
• Uses ‘watercourse analogy’ to help delegates understand different levels of distress and how to bolster resilience
• Know more about the importance of self-care and self-compassion.
• Have a deeper understanding of the term resilience and emotional wellbeing.
• Deepen understanding of the stress response curve.
• Mitigating against the effects of crisis.
• Making practical and effective changes to maximise wellbeing and resilience.
• Setting realistic goals.
• Design a Personal Plan to maximise wellbeing and resilience.
• Safety planning using StayingSafe.net.
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Engage
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Physician
- Psychiatry
Focus Area
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Community Suicide Awareness
by 4 Mental Health

- 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
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Business, Administrative, and Clerical etc.
- Case Management
- Facility Operations
- Management
- Nursing
- Peer Support Worker
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Creating a safe physical environment for patients at risk of suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying risk factors for suicide
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide risk formulation practices
- Suicide screening practices
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Suicide Awareness for Professionals
by 4 Mental Health

• 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.
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
Focus Area
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Suicide Response Part 1
by 4 Mental Health

• 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
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Communicating with patients about suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide screening practices
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National
Connecting with People Module: Suicide Response Part 2
by 4 Mental Health

- 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
ZSH Element
- Lead
- Train
- Identify
- Engage
- Treat
- Transition
- Improve
Audience
- Allied Health Clinician
- Case Management
- Crisis Services
- Nursing
- Physician
- Psychiatry
- Support and Outreach
Focus Area
- Aftercare and follow-up
- Collaborative safety planning for suicide
- Crisis response procedures and de-escalation techniques
- Determining appropriate levels of care for patients at risk of suicide
- Family, caregiver, and community supports
- Identifying risk factors for suicide
- Identifying warning signs for suicide
- Managing suicidal patients
- Procedures for communicating about potentially suicidal patients
- Reducing access to lethal means outside the care environment
- Suicide prevention and awareness
- Suicide-specific treatment approaches
Course Type
- Online/e-Learning
- Blended learning
- Face-to-face
Cost
- Fee for service
- No cost
Location
- National