Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/05/2021
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
The Glade
safeTALK is a half-day training in suicide alertness. It helps participants recognise a person with thoughts of suicide and connect them with resources that can help them in choosing to live. Participants don’t need any formal preparation to attend the training. Anyone age 15 or older who wants to make a difference can learn the safeTALK steps.
Run by Action to Prevent Suicide as part of the free wellbeing services hosted by Woods for Wellness. This is a free workshop to build suicide safer communities.
How safeTALK Works
Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t want to die – instead, they are looking for a way to work through the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they usually invite others to help them in making a choice for life. safeTALK teaches participants to recognise these invitations, engage with the person with thoughts of suicide, and connect them with resources to help them be safer from suicide. These resources could include health care professionals, first responders, or crisis line workers – among many others.
Goals and Objectives
safeTALK helps participants become alert to suicide. Suicide-alert people are better prepared to connect persons with thoughts of suicide with life-affirming help.
Over the course of their training, safeTALK participants will learn to:
• Notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts may be present.
• Recognise that invitations for help are often overlooked.
• Move beyond the common tendency to miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide.
• Apply the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe.
• Know community resources and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to them for further suicide-safer help.
Who Should Take safeTALK?
safeTALK is designed for anyone age 15 or older, including many in more formal helping roles. The steps learned in safeTALK have helped participants from all walks of life be alert to situations where suicide thoughts may be present.
>>>TO SIGN UP please email info@actiontopreventsuicide.org with your name and contact details.