Situational Suicide Prevention Training
Gain the confidence, skills and tools needed for Engaging Each other Responding to Suicide
1 in 20 Australians have had thoughts of suicide… Do you know the signs? Do you have the confidence, skills and tools to engage and respond to suicide? To WALK one of your peers across the road of suicide?
Situational Suicide Prevention acknowledges the distress of your peer rather than automatically assuming mental illness or disorder, with suicide thoughts (though in some cases the two are linked).
It responds to significantly challenging experiences of mind. This includes thoughts, emotions, sensations, or behaviours, associated with an inability to compensate for a distressing event, such as: bereavement, relationship breakdown, change in health status, natural disasters, pandemics, financial, or occupational difficulties. This distress may significantly overlap with many of the symptoms usually taken to suggest mental ‘illness’ or ‘distress’.
WHO IS peersWALK™ TRAINING FOR?
Team and community members like you who notice their peer/s maybe heading down the road of suicide, and care enough to help them across that road rather than going down it. And no, it doesn’t mean you have to become a practitioner – just a member of the relay team that gets your peer across the road.
WHAT IS THE FORMAT OF peersWALK™ TRAINING?
This is a live, experiential and facilitated training in a secure online environment so it can be accessible to anyone, anywhere with a computer and internet connection. It involves hands-on interaction and practice.
HOW LONG IS peersWALK™ TRAINING?
The facilitated training runs for 4 hours. There are also follow-up skill building modules available post training as well.
WHAT WILL I GAIN FROM peersWALK™ ?
• Confidence, skills and tools to know what to do
• Simple models and the ability to apply them straight away
• Hands-on skills practice and development
• Knowledge and practical experience to intervene earlier and practically, to prevent a downward spiral into distress
The signs of suicide or situational distress can sometimes be coded. Learn how to decode those signs, make a difference and learn how to WALK someone across the road of suicide or situational distress.
Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics causes of death data tells us that the top 3 psychosocial factors in the risk of suicide are history of self-harm, disruption of family by separation and divorce, problems in relationship with partners. So there's just 2 of the reasons why @peersWALK™⚠️ Situational Suicide Prevention Training is proudly brought to you by @Parents Beyond Breakup, the not-for-profit charity that's been keeping mums and dads alive and in their kids' lives since 1999.
We don't always know how far down the road of suicide our peer or our colleague may already be. But we can be part of the relay team that gets them across that road.
What could you be missing, dismissing or resisting when it comes to suicide or situational distress in one of your peers or one of your colleagues?
