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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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.
- Developing and enchancing skills
- Improving attitudes
- Increasing confidence in helping someone who is in distress
- Health and social care
- Volunteer workers
- Schools and higher education
- Prisons
The most recent version of the STORM® Skills Training packages is Version 4.
STORM® Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation Packages
Version 4 offers four packages:
Skills Training in Suicide Prevention (Adults)
Skills Training in Suicide Prevention (Children & Young Adults)
Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation (Adults)
Skills Training in Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Mitigation (Children & Young Adults)
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
For individuals
For small organisations and groups
Looking for something different?
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:
- Develop a basic understanding of distress and suicide
- Be able to start a conversation with someone considered a concern for welfare
- To help a person stay safe until the Emergency Services arrive
- Know what to communicate to the Emergency Services
- Understand the importance of personal safety
- Know how to support those involved in the incident
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:
- Start the conversation around suicide and self-harm
- Understand the connection between suicide and self-harm with emotional health
- Learn how the #HeyAreYouOK 3-step approach can help in both our professional personal lives
- Continue the conversation with colleagues, friends and family beyond the Workshop
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
#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:
- Dispel myths and challenge stigma
- Understand how (di)stress impacts on mental & physical health
- Understand the relationship between (di)stress and self-harm & suicide
- Build a resilience framework to emotional health
- Create a compassionate, responsive workplace culture
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.
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