Dundalk Positive Mental Health Forum/HSE host "SafeTALK" training Mon 6th Oct.

                                                                       

 

‘Suicide alertness for everyone’.

                                                                                              

Why come to SafeTALK?

     In only a few hours, you will learn how to provide practical help to

    persons who are having thoughts of suicide.

‘SafeTALK’ prepares you to be a suicide helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide invite help. Often these opportunities to help are missed, dismissed or avoided - leaving people more alone and at greater risk.

SafeTALK training prepares you to help by using the steps of TALK (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) to identify and engage with people who are contemplating suicide and to connect them with further help and care.

Dundalk Positive Mental Health Forum in Conjunction with the HSE are organising ‘SafeTALK’

Training will take place from

9:30am – 13:30pm

on

Monday 6^th October 2014

Location

Dundalk Outcommers, 8 Roden Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth

LIMITED PLACES  /   REGISTRATION NECESSARY.

Closing Date for Applications Tuesday 30^th  September.

For more information contact:

Bernadette Manning

Department of Health Promotion & Improvement
Health & Wellbeing Division
Health Service Executive Dublin North East
St Brigids Complex,
Ardee,
Co. Louth

Phone: 041 6860706

Suicide alert helpers are part of a suicide-safer Community

    

Half day programme

Learn four basic steps to recognise persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them with suicide helping resources.

Suitable for everyone who wants to help prevent suicide: front line workers, clergy, volunteers, parents, teachers, citizens …

What is safeTALK?

safeTALK is a 4 hour suicide alertness programme that prepares participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. These specific skills are called suicide alertness and are taught with the expectation that the person learning them will use them to help save lives. Expect to leave safeTALK more willing and able to perform an important helping role for persons with thoughts of suicide.

What happens at safeTALK trainings?

Expect to be challenged. Expect to have feelings. Expect to be hopeful.

See powerful reminders of why it is important to be suicide alert. Ask questions and enter discussions. Learn clear and practical information on what to do.

Practice the TALK (Tell, Ask, Listen, and Keepsafe) steps to connect a person with suicidal thoughts to suicide first-aid intervention caregivers.

Conclude with practice in activating a suicide alert.

How does safeTALK help prevent suicide?

safeTALK suicide alert helpers are trained to:

• Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide
• Identify people who have thoughts of suicide
• Apply the TALK steps to connect a person with suicidal thoughts to people and agencies that can help.

Who should attend safeTALK?

This training is suitable for everyone who wants to help prevent suicide and is prepared to become a suicide alert helper.

Criteria Which Must Be Met

• Participants should be clear on the nature/content/expectations of the training beforehand to be able to consider whether it is appropriate to their needs

• If a potential participant has been bereaved by a suicide in a one year period leading up to the training it is recommended that they do not attend the training

• Information on safeTALK should be given to each participant before the workshop. All applications must be completed by the Applicant not Organiser’s / Line Manager’s.

• safeTALK is for over 18’s only.

• Participants practice the TALK steps  –  role play the steps with another participant

• Time keeping is critical. Participants need to attend the full programme (4 hours) to receive certification. Participants arriving late and leaving before the programme is complete disrupt the learning process and Will Not receive a certificate of completion

If participants have difficulty committing to this time please ask them to let the organiser know. Applicants Can Not send someone else in their place.

• The Application to Host a SafeTALK Workshop must be returned at least one month before a training date can be scheduled.

• Participant names/applications must to be forwarded to Suicide Resource Officer via the organiser two weeks before the date of training. If these are not received the training will be cancelled.

• Once received by the Suicide Resource Officer, No Additional Names Can Be Added To The List and Only Those Whose Names Have Been Received Can Attend

• A minimum of 15 participants are needed to run the programme and a maximum of 35 can attend.

 

Applications Must be completed in Block Capitals by Applicant.

All fields must be completed otherwise application may not be accepted

Due to the sensitive content of this program it is strongly advised that those bereaved by suicide do not attend this training for at least I year after the bereavement.

Monday 6^th October 2914 Dundalk Outcommers, 8 Roden Place, Dundalk

Name :        ________________________________________

Applicants cannot send someone else in their place

Gender :                Male □     Female  □

Are you over the age of 18 years:          Yes □        No □

Have you been ASIST trained ?           Yes □           No □

Training to date: __________________________________________________________________

Profession : ______________________________________________________________________

Organisation (Employer):   __________________________________________________________

                   (e.g.   Barnardos, An Garda Siochana, School Name, College Name, HSE,

                                   Or Charity name eg. Console)

Department :   ____________________________________________________________________

                                    (if relevant e.g., Health Promotion, NEPS, Finance,

                                                Mental Health or Primary Care Service)

Sector  (tick one) :

Agriculture Group		Justice
Church/Religious Groups		Minority Groups
Community		Research
Education		Statutory Agency
Healthcare HSE		Voluntary
Healthcare Non HSE		Sporting Organisation

Work Address : ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________

Home  Address :            ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Email :                  ________________________________________________________________

Contact phone number(s) : ________________________________________________

For you  (not Reception)

Are you available at short notice ?      Yes □           No □

Please select two dates:        1^st preference: _______              2^nd Preference: _______

                  We will make every effort to offer first preferences, however we cannot guarantee your chosen date.

Please tick to indicate that you understand role play is an essential part of this workshop    □

Briefly –   why are you interested in this course?  : ________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

If handwriting this, then please make sure it is legible.

Please note participants must attend the entire workshop otherwise certificates will not be awarded

Those who have been given a confirmed place and then cancel without adequate notice may not considered for future training..

Please return applications to

Department of Health Promotion and Improvement

Health and Wellbeing Division

Health Service Executive Dublin North East

St Brigids Hospital Ardee, Co Louth 

Fax the form to 041-6856997

email bernadettej.manning@hse.ie