Self-harm and suicide prevention
Storm Skills Training is a high-quality, effective self-harm and suicide prevention training package that is supported by a wealth of research, experience, and expertise.
About us
At Storm Skills Training, we’re passionate about having more effective conversations that help reduce distress, and fewer lives lost to self-harm and suicide.
We are a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to benefit the community by delivering high-quality self-harm and suicide prevention training.
Combined with more than 20 years of academic research and experience in training delivery, our active understanding of self-harm and suicide prevention gives you a highly effective training package that is relevant to a range of organisations, systems, professions, and sectors.
Our evidence
Our training is based on academic research, evidence, and best practice, with a focus on real-life experiences.
Research supports the effectiveness of our training across a range of audiences including mental health, health and social care, volunteer workers, schools and higher education, and prisons.
Why choose Storm Skills Training?
Our unique focus on skills, research, and quality
We take what we learn from research, best practice, and lived experience to create our training. We then work with teams and individuals to enhance skills to use this effectively in a conversation with someone in distress – including engagement, assessment, formulation, and safety planning.
Our evidence-based training methodologies give frontline team members the opportunity to practice, reflect, and give and receive feedback on skills in a safe and supportive learning environment. We use the highest standard of skills development, which includes filmed skills practice for the more advanced levels of our courses.
Our training is dynamic and challenging because conversations about self-harm and suicide prevention can be dynamic and challenging.
Storm Skills Training is proven to be effective
We deliver high-quality training that makes a difference and has an impact. Studies have shown that our training package is effective in:
– Developing and enhancing skills
– Improving attitudes
– Increasing confidence in helping someone who is in distress
Research supports the effectiveness of our training across a range of audiences including mental health, health and social care, volunteer workers, schools and higher education, and prisons.
Our ethical social business model with real social impact
We are proud to be an organisation that is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We believe that our differences make us stronger.
We are not for profit and we believe strongly that no one should profit from the distress of others. This is really important, it’s why we became a social enterprise in the first place.
The success of our training benefits the community and we are motivated to make sure that every penny generated helps us toward achieving our vision and mission.
What to expect from Storm Skills Training
In everything we do, we strive to create a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.
We have integrity, and we are a fair, honest, and ethical organisation that people are proud to be associated with. We are committed to excellence and social responsibility, and believe in treating everyone with respect, compassion, and kindness.
By working with us, you’ll be part of a community that is committed to supporting our mission and vision towards fewer lives lost to suicide and self-harm.
Working with our team means that you will receive attention and support throughout your experience with us. We take the time to get to know each of our customers and your specific needs to make sure that we provide training sessions that meet your unique requirements.
We’ll work closely with you to ensure that your team are completely satisfied with the training services that we provide.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited training
Courses delivered directly by us, including the Train-the-Facilitator and Direct-to-Participant courses, have full Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation with The CPD Certification Service.
Expanding our social impact
The success of our training benefits the community in two ways:
- The direct impact of our training on the frontline – enhancing skills and confidence of teams and promoting person-centered collaborative conversations with those in distress and their support network
2. We share our training success: we invest in projects and activities which help to further our mission to reduce the incidence and impact of self-harm and suicide.
Suicide prevention skills training packages for you
We are passionate about working with you to create a compassionate and skilled workforce to prevent suicide – no matter what size of the organisation.
We want to understand your workforce needs and how we can support you to meet these needs.
Sustainability and best use of funds is at our heart. We want to make sure you chose the option right for your team.
Audiences who may be interested in our training packages include:
Health and social care
Mental health teams
Schools and higher education
Prisons
Primary care
Looking back at our history over the last 20 years, we know that nothing would have been achieved without the support and commitment from the Storm Skills Training community.
We began as a small research project at the University of Manchester that has grown and evolved into a successful social enterprise - Community Interest Company.
