Zero Suicide Healthcare Training

• 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.

• Know and understand more about self-harm including signs and causes.

• How to talk to someone about self-harm.

• Techniques for developing and maintaining personal wellbeing & coping strategies to promote resilience.

• Overview of useful techniques to help people who self-harm including problem-solving techniques, The Bank of HopeTM, ABC formulation and more.

• Practice how to talk to someone in distress who may self-harm.

• Understand the importance of social support and the role of social support mapping in preparation for co-producing Safety Plans.

• Practice and know-how to co-produce an immediate and long-term Safety Plan.