Conversations About Suicide – April 18 – Surry Hills
Course Details
Conversations about Suicide is a 4 hour course where you will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to safely have a conversation with a suicidal person.
$100.00
Course Details
Session dates and times:
18th April
9:00am – 1:00pm
Venue Location:
ACON – Level 3
414 Elizabeth St Surry
Instructor Profile
Kirsten Gibbs is the Principal Trainer & Support Coordinator at Empowered Lives – As a mental health trainer, she brings to her training a wide breadth of knowledge gained from her personal experience living with a mental illness, as a carer of children with mental health issues and her extensive and varied professional experience.
Instructor Profile
Meybell Trabanino is the Lead Mental Health Trainer at Empowered Lives. Workplace in-house training is Meybell’s speciality area, and she also provides public and private training in Victoria & Sydney.
Additional Information
Learn practical skills to improve your confidence to provide mental health first aid to someone who is feeling suicidal.
Attending ‘Conversations about suicide’ will help you:
– identify warning signs of suicide
– learn how to talk to someone having suicidal thoughts and behaviours.
At the end of this course you will have the skills and confidence to support someone having a suicidal crisis.
This is a 4 hour course, based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals.
The MHFA for the Suicidal Person course is not a therapy or a support group and it is important that people undertaking the course are feeling relatively robust when they undertake it. Specific postvention support services can be found at the beyondblue website.
Contact training@empoweredlives.net.au or Kirsten on 0402 329 363 to discuss.
This course has been developed by Mental Health First Aid Australia, and is delivered by Instructors who are accredited by MHFA Australia to run this course.
For more information go https://mhfa.com.au/courses/public/types/suicide
This course is also offered in conjunction Conversations about Suicide.
Empowered Lives will be running Mental Health First Aid for non-suicidal self injury in a variety of locations, on weekdays, weekends, and evenings. The course cost includes the 4 hour course and refreshments.
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Empowered Lives can also provide this course as In-house training.
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This course has been developed by Mental Health First Aid Australia, and is delivered by Instructors who are accredited by MHFA Australia to run this course.
For more information go https://mhfa.com.au/
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