Community Engagement
Suicide Prevention in Community - It’s all about connection
'We believe suicide prevention is everyone’s business. Through our collaborative work and connection with community, we are all building suicide safer communities'.
Lifeline in Community
Funding from HNECC Primary Health Network resources us to work across nine local government areas, stretching from the Central Coast and across the Hunter Region. We are supported through our strong connections with local government, community organisations and through the commitment of local community leaders and members.
We promote the capacity of local communities to develop, implement and sustain their own suicide safer community. We know this is a continuous journey that allows communities to take responsibility for their own development, bringing in local resources and approaches.
We support you and your community through offering:
- Creating community connections around suicide prevention
- Delivering community briefings and talks that start the conversation about suicide prevention in your community
- Identify and support community leaders and community members who want to build a suicide safer community
- Supporting connections within community to local council, services and groups
- Developing and supporting local suicide prevention networks
- Planing and participating in community events
- Fully subsided training for teachers, frontline services, and community members
Training
Training is a key element in saving lives. Being able to identify and intervene when people are having thoughts of suicide is a skill for life. The below courses are subsided for teachers, frontline service workers, and community members to help make the training affordable and accessible and help build suicide safer communities.
Livingworks SafeTALK
A half day fully subsidised suicide prevention awareness program: 3.5 HRS
What you will take away from the workshop:
- Recognise that invitations for help are often overlooked
- Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss, and avoid conversations around suicide
- Notice and respond to situations in which thoughts of suicide may be present
- Apply the basic TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen, and Keepsafe)
Livingworks ASISTTraining in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training:2 FULL DAYS
What to expect:
- ASIST aims to enhance caregivers’ abilities to help a person at risk to avoid suicide
- Participants learn to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and respond in ways that help increase immediate safety and link them to help
- Extensive evaluations of ASIST outcomes have shown that participants demonstrate increased intervention skills and that ASIST training has led to positive changes in both knowledge and attitudes about suicide
To enquire about hosting a dedicated ASIST or Safe Talk in your organisation (minimum 12 participants)
Contact: Nicole Cooney on 02 4940 2000.
To book into one of our upcoming workshops, go to our training calendar.
