Education and Training

Suicide can be an emotionally charged subject. Each person is affected by grief in their own unique way — any service about suicide attempts or conclusions may be helpful and emotionally cathartic and healing. A grieving process is uniquely personal for family relationships: parents, siblings, relations, friends and for the broader society.

For this reason, if you are or have recently been attempted or bereaved by suicide, we recommend that you reflect on whether this is the right time for you to attend any of our courses or services.

We are aware that for some people, the word “suicide” can cause many different unexplored thoughts to arise. Whilst wanting to reduce the stigma and taboo, we are aware that any sudden death can be distressful.

Suicide Awareness

Goodwill In Action To Prevent Suicide supports suicide awareness courses and training with various focuses:

SPA (Online Suicide Awareness Course)

An online course created by Goodwill In Action to Prevent Suicide, which seeks to raise awareness of suicide in 7 key steps.

ASK (Assessing Suicide in Kids 5-14 years-old

Children are not small adults. So why use approaches designed for adults to help a child? The ASK Workshop is the only suicide prevention workshop that specifically targets suicide risk in children. We give participants developmentally appropriate strategies and tools to identify young children at risk of suicide and quickly gather and organise key details needed to assess risk and inform safety planning.

Living Works Courses

Since 1983, LivingWorks has delivered evidence-based training to empower individuals, organizations, and communities to prevent suicide. With over 8,000 trainers worldwide, they have trained more than 2 million people. Their gold-standard Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course is endorsed by the World Health Organisation. LivingWorks specialises in ASIST and SafeTALK courses, offering pre and post-course support for meaningful conversations about suicide.

ASIST
ASIST+
SafeTALK
SafeTALK+

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a course that teaches people how to help someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis or developing a mental health problem. It also teaches people how to identify signs of mental illness and substance use disorders.

Collaborative Courses

The courses listed below have been piloted with other organisations or individuals. Depending on demand and accreditation we aim to deliver more of these.

Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health for Managers
Self Harm and Support
Bespoke Courses on mental health, suicide prevention and health and wellbeing