Training opportunities with STORM® Skills Training CIC

Our Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation courses have been designed to accommodate the needs of people with differing levels of engagement and responsibility for safety planning.

In addition to our courses in Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation, we have other training opportunities that you might be interested in such as Reaching Out… Workshops, Starting the Conversation Workshops and #HeyAreYouOK Workshops for Workplaces.

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STORM® Skills Training Packages

Suicide Prevention & Self-harm Mitigation

Evidence underpins the content and methodology of our training packages and our unique formula is supported by academic research to improve confidence, knowledge and skills of frontline staff.

Our Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation courses have been designed to accommodate the needs of people with differing levels of engagement and responsibility for safety planning.

Our courses will increase your confidence and competence by enhancing the communication skills needed to engage someone in distress to: work collaboratively, reduce risk, plan for safety and prevent suicide.

Studies have demonstrated that STORM® skills training is effective in:
The research supports STORM®’s effectiveness across a range of audiences including:

 The most recent version of the STORM® Skills Training packages is Version 4.

 Both the Adult and Children and Young Adult (CYA) packages have 4 course levels to choose from:

Simple intervention and signposting.

Basic assessment and safety planning.

Comprehensive assessment and safety planning.

Comprehensive assessment and safety planning – complex situations.

STORM® Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation Packages

Version 4 offers four packages:

Skills Training in Suicide Prevention (Adults)

Our Suicide Prevention courses aim to:

Develop skills and confidence in order to help people who self-harm. The courses focus on suicide prevention and promote a positive and enabling approach.
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Skills Training in Suicide Prevention (Children & Young Adults)

Our Suicide Prevention courses aim to:

Develop skills and confidence in order to help children and young adults who self-harm. The courses focus on suicide prevention and promote a positive and enabling approach.
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Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation (Adults)

Our Suicide Prevention & Self-harm mitigation courses aim to:

Develop skills and confidence in order to help people who self-harm and to promote a positive and enabling approach.
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Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation (Children & Young Adults)

Our Suicide Prevention & Self-harm mitigation courses aim to:

Develop skills and confidence in order to help children and young adults who self-harm and to promote a positive and enabling approach.
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Additional module: Postvention & Preparedness

Our Postvention and Preparedness course aims to develop skills and confidence in order to help those bereaved or affected by the death of someone by suicide.

– To develop a good understanding of the impact of suicide

– To develop a good understanding of grief, distress and trauma

– To promote a positive and enabling approach

Delivery methods

Our flexible and adaptable skills training appeals to a wide variety of audiences and we have a number of delivery methods available:

For large organisations

If you are an organisation that requires a high volume of staff to be trained, we offer a Train-the-Facilitator model of delivery. This delivery method requires a Licence Agreement. Please note that we only offer Licence Agreements to organisations who meet our criteria.
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For individuals

For frontline staff who don’t work for an organisation with STORM® training in place and wish to develop skills in helping someone in distress.
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For small organisations and groups

Our Direct to Participant courses are suitable for smaller organisations or groups with fewer numbers of staff requiring training. Customers commission Direct-to-Participant courses for a selected group of staff rather than organisation wide dissemination. 
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Looking for something different?

We offer a bespoke education and training service. We can help you to plan, develop and deliver skills-based training or education workshops that are at the right level and context for your workforce.
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Open Courses for Individuals

Our Open Courses are for frontline staff who don’t work for an organisation with STORM® training in place, but wish to develop skills in helping someone in distress.

This is a unique opportunity for you to enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in working
with those vulnerable to suicide and/or using self-harm to cope. The course also provides an excellent framework and resources to support best practice.

We have carefully and successfully adapted the course, taking into consideration emotional and physical health, so that it can be made available to you online.

Other training opportunities with STORM®

In addition to our courses in Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation, we have some other training opportunities that you might be interested in. These include;  Reaching Out… Workshops, Starting the Conversation Workshops and #HeyAreYouOK Workshops for Workplaces.

Reaching Out... Workshop

Our Reaching…Out workshops are aimed at first responders. 

In this workshop participants will learn how to engage with someone at risk of suicide before handing over to the emergency services or someone with more experience.

Personal safety is of the highest importance. We work collaboratively with our customer’s Occupational Health and Health & Safety departments to ensure that we follow all guidance in relation to physical and emotional safety.

In this workshop participants will:

Customer Feedback:

“While the emergency services arrive very quickly, it usually takes a few minutes. Those few minutes might make all the difference. I wanted to ensure that I knew what to do and what to say. The STORM® training has helped to give me that confidence”

Alan

Vehicle Recovery Driver

Participant at a Reaching Out...Workshop

Starting the Conversation Workshop

By ‘starting the conversation’ around suicide and self-harm with consideration to emotional health – our emotional health, bringing the outside focus inward – we begin a conversation that is easier to engage with because we ‘all’ understand suicide and self-harm from a personal perspective. 

A deeper understanding can also translate into a sense of empathy thus creating the potential for a more compassionate approach with others.

Through self-reflection, discussion and group work in a safe learning environment, Participants will:

Through self-refection, discussion and group work, participants will understand Suicide and Self-harm in relation to their professional experiences, develop a coherent understanding of what is necessary to help those at risk and identify strategies, practices and challenges to suicide prevention within their work.

#HeyAreYouOK? Workshops for Workplaces

Our #HeyAreYouOK workshops for the workplace will equip your workforce with the relevant skills to help look after their own mental wellbeing, and to reach out to someone in (di)stress, but also the opportunity to develop a culture that more effectively manages and responds to (di)stress.

#HeyAreYouOK? Workshop for Workplaces

The aim of the #HeyAreYouOK? Campaign is to:

Promote a culture that teaches us to recognise (di)stress and to talk about it openly and honestly; a culture that teaches us to ask for help without fear of being stigmatised; and a culture that teaches us that sometimes we need to reach out to those we think may be finding life difficult to cope with.

STORM® believes that the responsibility for mental health and wellbeing needs to be mutually inclusive between the workplace and the workforce. 

Through the #HeyAreYouOK Workshops for Workplaces, staff members explore the 3-steps of the #HeyAreYouOK? campaign in detail in order to:

Through Self-reflection, Discussion, and group work in a safe learning environment, staff will learn how the #HeyAreYouOK 3-step approach can help in their professional and personal lives.

Through Self-reflection, Discussion, Role-rehearsal and Group Work in a safe learning environment, staff will learn how to embed the #HeyAreYouOK 3-steps into workplace culture.

What our customers say:

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Striving towards a more collaborative and inclusive approach to suicide prevention.

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