MATES CONNECTOR Training Session

MATES CONNECTOR Training

Proudly brought to you by: Lifeline Albury Wodonga, MATES in Construction & Zauner Construction

Join us for a FREE Training session, but hurry limited spots are available!

Connect training is provided to those people on site who volunteer to become a Connector - a person trained to help keep someone safe in a crisis, while at the same time connecting them to professional help.

Connector training takes approx. 4 hours.

A Connector is not a counselor or any other kind of professional, they are simply a mate who knows how to help. Most people participating in Connector training have naturally been in the role without even knowing it. The Connector training provides some extra skills for people to ask about suicide and then facilitate the link to help.

Connectors are trained in the following:

• What is a Connector’s role?
• What is not a Connector’s role?
• How to be alert to the signs of suicide.
• How to ask about suicide.
• How to connect a person to help.
• How to look after yourself as a Connector.
• The help that a MATES Case Manager can offer.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Do not bring or remove any food items or drinks (eg takeaway coffees, lunch boxes or drink bottles etc) into the Commercial Club. Penalties will apply if the above occurs.

Host or Publisher Lifeline Albury Wodonga