Description

SafeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. SafeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.
During this training, participants will learn to:
- Notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts might be present
- Recognize that invitations for help are often overlooked
- Move beyond the common tendency to miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide
- Apply the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe
- Know community resources and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to them for further help.

Trainers

  • John Forster — St Vincent's
  • Tanya Cottrell — St Vincent's

Eligibility criteria

Note: This training is only for non-clinical staff, including peer workers, consumer and carer consultants, admin staff etc. There is separate training on resilience in the afternoon of the same day in the same venue if participants also wish to attend. Attendance requires separate registration.

Categories: Capability 9 - Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning
Disciplines: Lived Experience Workforce, Other
Levels: Introductory
Lifespans: Adolescent, Youth, Adult

Thursday 28 March 2019
09:00 to 12:30
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There is no charge for training for staff employed by services within the NEVIL Cluster unless otherwise stipulated.
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