Connections Suicide Awareness

CONNECTIONS SUICIDE AWARENESS

Course Name: Connections Suicide Awareness

Duration: 1.5 – 2.5 hours

Course Description:

This bitesize awareness course is aimed at anyone in the community who would like to talk about ‘The Elephant in the Room’.

This course will give you confidence to help and teach easy to follow practical steps so that you can help people in your workplace, family, group, or community who may be in emotional distress or having thoughts of suicide get the help and support they need to keep themselves safe.

Participants leave with:

An awareness of the community health problem of suicide and the myths and stigma around emotional health and suicide
Practical ideas of what communities, workplaces, group, and families can do to encourage help seeking
Easy to remember steps which helpers use to help reduce overwhelm and save lives.
Knowledge of key community support resources and signposting agencies
An awareness of the importance of taking personal wellbeing steps

Target Group:

This bitesize awareness course is aimed at anyone in the community including workplaces, churches, clubs, and groups and others. It will be of interest to anyone who would like to begin to talk about emotional distress and suicide and receive easy to remember guidance including practical steps that they can take to help increase safety from suicide and reduce emotional distress. Participants must be aged 15 years or older.