SUICIDE PREVENTION & AWARENESS COURSES

Suicide Prevention and Emotional Health Training For Everyone

Suicide Prevention & Emotional Health training programmes, products and merchandise are all about empowering others in the use of life saving evidence-based approaches, tools and help seeking strategies & resources developed by FME.   The programmes enable FME to share learning and cascade further impact ensuring that more people are equipped to support others through emotional distress, suicidal ideation & behaviours.   Offering these programmes, products & resources plays an essential role in generating essential income required to deliver the charity’s direct support services for children & young people who experience bereavement, loss, or emotional distress.   

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.  

This course lasts between 1.5 and 2.5 hours and is for participants 15 years or older.

This emotional health and suicide prevention education and skills course is aimed at those in workplaces, advice, community, school, and health settings who are in a caregiving role or for those who with a responsibility to reduce emotional distress and prevent suicide.  

This course will teach and practice the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, intervene and de-escalate risk through establishing a safety plan.  

The course helps you help people in your workplace, organisation, group, church, school or community who may be in emotional distress or having thoughts of suicide get the help and support they need to keep themselves safe.  

This course lasts 3.5hrs including a comfort break.

This emotional health and suicide prevention education and skills course is a version of our Link Life course specifically for veterans and families of veterans.  

This course will teach and practice the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, intervene and de-escalate risk through establishing a safety plan.  

This course lasts 3.5hrs including a comfort break.

Help Life offers participants who have completed Link Life with an extended training session to practice the implementation of the Connect-4Ways helper model.  This training will also include practice in establishing safe plans for a range of scenarios and these can be modified to reflect the background and setting that the course participants work, volunteer and live in. 

This courses lasts for up to 2.5 hours and is for participants 15 years or older.

Want to train to deliver The Connections Link Life Suicide Prevention & Intervention Curriculum?

Connections Link Life is a Suicide Prevention & Intervention Curriculum. It is unique in that it is entirely focused on creating a transformational learning experience for those who engage with the Connections Link Life course through our highest held values; CONNECTION, HUMANITY & HOPE. The model is created in the context of trauma growth and focuses on bringing about attitudinal change, positive behavioural change, hope & healing. The Connections Link Life Curriculum HELPS SAVE LIVES.

Want to train to deliver The Connections Operation Link Life Suicide Prevention & Intervention Curriculum?

Connections Operation Link Life is a Suicide Prevention & Intervention Curriculum specifically for veterans and families of veterans. It is unique in that it is entirely focused on creating a transformational learning experience for those who engage with the Connections Operation Link Life course through our highest held values; CONNECTION, HUMANITY & HOPE. The model is created in the context of trauma growth and focuses on bringing about attitudinal change, positive behavioural change, hope & healing. The Connections Link Life Curriculum HELPS SAVE LIVES.

Fresh Minds Education ensure the work being delivered locally and regionally is feeding into achieving the objectives of the regional strategies for mental health & suicide prevention. Attending and participating in the PLIG North helps ensure that FME is collaborating and strategically aligning with key players throughout the province.