Lancashire and South Cumbria suicide prevention training consortium ​​​​​​

Delivery method – virtual delivery only.

Overview

This one hour seminar introduces learners to self-harm and challenges misconceptions about self harm.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will:

• Have an increased awareness of self harm
• Understand common misconceptions about self harm
• Understand and challenge stigma around self harm.

Course Content

• Delivery by an experienced mental health trainer

• Audio visual training resource
• Electronic resources to support learners.

Delivery method – awaiting news on potential delivery options.

Overview

Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses are a 2 day workshop for everyone who works with, lives with or supports young people aged 8-18. They will teach you the skills and confidence to spot the signs of mental health issues in a young person, offer first aid and guide them towards the support they need. In doing so, you can speed up a young person’s recovery and stop a mental health issue from getting worse. The courses teaches how to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis - and even potentially stop a crisis from happening.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will have:

• An in depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect young people’s wellbeing
• Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
• Confidence to step in, reassure and support a young person in distress
• Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
• Knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that’s self-help resources, through their employer, the NHS, or a mix.

Course Content

• Group activities
• Presentations and discussions
• A manual to refer to whenever you need it
• A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health.

Delivery method – virtual delivery only.

Overview

This one hour seminar introduces learners to the concepts of stress, anxiety and depression and helps to prevent stigma and misconceptions.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will:

• Have increased self-awareness
• Understand the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression
• Understand common misconceptions about stress, anxiety and depression
• Understand and challenge stigma.

Course Content

• Delivery by an experienced mental health trainer
• Audio visual training resource
• Electronic resources to support learners.

Delivery Method – virtual or face to face delivery options.

Overview

This half day workshop will encourage you to challenge your thinking around self-harm and tackle misconceptions and myths around the subject. You will be looking at risk factors, safeguarding, harm minimisation and helpful strategies to support people who self-harm. You will walk away with knowledge of how to respond to self-harm in a helpful so to encourage engagement and support moving forward.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Understand and challenge stigma around self harm
• Have confidence in responding to disclosures
• Have a better understanding of strategies to support self harm
• Reflect on their own practice and policies in relation to self harm.

Course Content

• Presentation from experienced mental health trainer
• Audio visual learning aids
• Practical case studies to explore support avenues
• Supporting workbook to aid learning.

Virtual and face to face delivery options (face to face is delivered in 2 consecutive days, virtually this course can be delivered across 4 virtual sessions supported by self guided study from learners at home).

Overview

Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. In the same way as learning physical first aid, MHFA teaches people how to recognise those crucial warning signs of mental ill health and feel confident to guide someone to appropriate support. Embedding MHFA training within any organisation or community also encourages people to talk more freely about mental health, reducing stigma and creating a more positive culture.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will have:

• An in depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing
• Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
• Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
• Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
• Knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that’s self-help resources, through their employer, the NHS, or a mix.

Course Content

• Group activities
• Presentations and discussions
• A manual to refer to whenever you need it
• A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health.

Delivery method - virtual only. 

Overview

A two-hour seminar aimed at developing teacher understanding of the importance of mental health and resilience for young people.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of building resilience from an early age
• Recognise the signs and symptoms of common mental health conditions in young people
• Be confident in talking about mental health with young people
• Embed resilience in the classroom
• Further support for children, young people and parents.

Course Content

• Presentation from experienced mental health trainer
• Practical activities to aid learning
• Follow up electronic Lancashire Mind resources to support mental health in schools.

Delivery method – face to face only.

Overview

This session is one hour in length has been coproduced with members of the community and community engagement groups to be a first introduction to the topic of suicide. It is designed to be a brief impactful session to talk about suicide and how someone might respond to a disclosure around suicide. 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Have a level of basic suicide awareness
• Respond to disclosures around suicide.

Course Content

• Presentation from experienced mental health trainer
• Lancashire Mind resources & follow up electronic resources.

Delivery method - virtual only. 

Overview

Aimed at managers and supervisors, this half day training session is CPD registered and provides a greater understanding of common mental health conditions in the workplace and what signs to look for in staff. This may be a starting point to encourage senior level buy-in or to ensure your organisation is offering a consistent approach to supporting mental health at work. Together we will be examining misconceptions and considering best practice; including asset mapping your current offer and possibly improving on it.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will have:

• An increased awareness of mental health in the workplace
• Be able to challenge stigma around poor mental health
• A better understanding of how to support staff experiencing poor mental health
• An understanding of good practice.

Course Content

• An experienced mental health trainer
• Audio visual learning resources
• Electronic resources to support managers/employees in the workplace.

Delivery method – virtual delivery only.

Overview

This one hour seminar can only be delivered to learners who have previously attended the ‘Self Awareness of Stress, Anxiety and Depression’ workshop under the 2020/21 suicide prevention programme. For customers requiring this course in isolation, it is available as a costed course privately.

Outcomes

At the end of the training learners will:

• Understand three different tools to improve resilience
• An understanding of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing
• An understanding how embedding resilience can improve wellbeing over time.

Course Content

Delivery by an experienced mental health trainer

• Audio visual training resource
• Electronic resources to support learners.

Delivery method – virtual or face to face delivery options.

Overview

Suicide First Aid Lite is a half day workshop is a City & Guilds registered workshop which provides learners with the confidence and tools to understand the impact of suicide and, using a first aid approach, take someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide from a place of danger and isolation to a place of safety and support. Suicide First Aiders use a three step approach to identify the signs that someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide, recognise the needs of that person, ask about suicide clearly and directly and use safety planning to empower the individual to find appropriate support.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Understand the impact of suicide locally and nationally
• Understand suicide approach
• Recognise the needs of someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide
• Identify the signs that someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide
• Use a three step approach to supporting somebody from a place of isolation to a place of safety and support
• Understand safety planning and recognising the importance of partnership working.
• Begin to consider self care when undertaking suicide prevention.

Course Content

• Presentations and guidance from a trainer registered with the National Centre for Suicide Prevention

• Access to support from a local community resource person
• Powerful audio-visual learning aids
• Learner workbook to support and record learning (either virtual or physical dependent on delivery)
• Hands-on skills practice and development.

Delivery method – virtual or face to face. Delivery options (virtual option 1 full day or 2 consecutive ½ days).

Overview

Suicide First Aid is a full day City & Gilds registered workshop which provides learners with the confidence and tools to understand the impact of suicide and, using a first aid approach, take someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide from a place of danger and isolation to a place of safety and support. This course goes into more detail than the lite version and incorporates further appropriate activities to support learning. This course supports learners to apply for a Leve 4 Unit Accredited Qualification in Suicide Prevention upon submission of an assignment (for learners who wish to apply for this  qualification, learners are required to enrol with City & Guilds at a cost of £85). Suicide First Aiders use a three step approach to identify the signs that someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide, recognise the needs of that person, ask about suicide clearly and directly and use safety planning to empower the individual to find appropriate support.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Understand the impact of suicide locally and nationally
• Understand suicide approach
• Recognise the needs of someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide
• Identify the signs that someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide
• Use a three step approach to supporting somebody from a place of isolation to a place of safety and support
• Understand safety planning and recognising the importance of partnership working.
• Begin to consider self care when undertaking suicide prevention.

Course Content

• Presentations and guidance from a trainer registered with the National Centre for Suicide Prevention
• Access to support from a local community resource person
• Powerful audio-visual learning aids
• Learner workbook to support and record learning (either virtual or physical dependent on delivery)
• Hands-on skills practice and development.

Delivery method – face to face delivery only.

Overview

safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone 15 or older, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognise these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts might be present
• Recognize 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 help.

Course Content

• Presentations and guidance from a LivingWorks registered trainer
• Access to support from a local community resource person
• Powerful audio-visual learning aids
• The simple yet effective TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe
• Hands-on skills practice and development.

To find out more about these opportunities please emai bwdtraining@cgl.org.uk

• Alcohol Awareness and Extended Brief Interventions (EBI) - full day training. 
• Drug Awarenss and Extended Brief Interventions (EBI) - full day training.
• The Hidden Harm of Substance Use - Working with Families - full day training.
• Dual Diagnosis - Substance Misuse and Mental Health - full day training.
• Go2 - Young People Drugs and Alcohol - half day training.
• Youth Justice - Issues and Challenges - half day training.
• Novel Psychoactive Substances - half day training.
• Working with South Asian Communities - half day training. 

To find out more about any of these opportunities please email eastlancs.info@cgl.org.uk

• Alcohol Awareness and Extended Brief Interventions (EBI) - half day training.
• Drug Awareness and Extended Brief Interventions (EBI) - half day training.
• *New* Psychoactive Substances (formerly referred to as legal-highs) - half day training.
• Steroids, Needle exchange and Harm Reduction - half day training.
• Introduction To Inspire  – 2 hours.

For training in North and Central Lancashire please contact:

liz.hopkins@cgl.org.uk or lisa.curtis@cgl.org.uk

Lancashire Emotional Health in Schools

For training please contact LEHSS on 01524 593425

Topic-based Sessions focus on common ways in which mental health issues present in young people and aim to help staff gain understanding and knowledge of how these issues develop and what can influence them.

Skill-based sessions aim to help staff improve or develop basic therapeutic skills in order to more effectively respond to mental health issues in schools and help young people better self-manage their distress.