safeTALK - Become a Suicide Safety Connector - F2F course (3-4 hours)

safeTALK gives you the confidence and practical skills to recognize when someone may be thinking about suicide .
About this Event

Whether directly or indirectly, most people with thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe. safeTALK is 3 – 4 hours of training that prepares participants to recognise these invitations and connect a person with thoughts of suicide to intervention resources. Powerful videos illustrate the importance of suicide alertness, while discussion and practice stimulate learning.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone 15 or over who wants to help people be safer from suicide.

Learning Outcomes

safeTALK participants will be better able to:

• Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide

• Recognise people who have thoughts of suicide

• Apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) to connect a person with thoughts of suicide to a suicide first-aid intervention caregiver

The Role of safeTALK in a Suicide-Safer Community

safeTALK helps connect people with thoughts of suicide to caregivers who can support them. Often, these caregivers are trained in the two-day ASIST programme.

You don’t need prior experience or a special background – just a willingness to help and a few hours of your time.

Together, we can make communities everywhere safer from suicide.

This course is Face to Face at Tor Hill House, Union Street, Torquay, TQ2 5QW

You will recieve a further email from [email protected] before the day and if you are unable to make the course please let us know asap so that your place can be offered to someone else. Non attentance wastes valuable funds. This course has been funded by Torbay Council.