Making a Suicide Intervention

The course is aimed at delegates whose job/volunteer role could bring them into contact with a suicidal person, providing them with the knowledge and skills to provide support to an individual. The course equips participants to intervene and engage a person at risk of suicide so that they are kept as safe as possible until specialist help or emergency services arrive.If you or someone you know requires emotional support, please call Samaritans’ free helpline 116 123.

This course is suitable for staff who work in a suicide-risk location – e.g. multi-storey

car parks, shopping centres, office blocks, bridges or those who work on, or near, roads,

railways and rivers and other waterways. This course would also be highly beneficial

to organisations looking to develop their suicide prevention strategies.

At the end of this course attendees will be able to:

• Identify signs of someone at risk of suicide.
• Think ‘safety first’ throughout an intervention.
• Approach someone and initiate a conversation.
• Engage someone in conversation sensitively and effectively.
• Encourage someone to move to a place of safety – if safe to do so.
• Refer someone to the emergency and/or support services

Additional information:

Course resources:

• Digital workbook

Digital platform:

• Zoom

Pre-course information:

• Strong internet connection to enable them to interact in this format
• Access to a quiet area
• Ideally access to headsets with a microphone to exclude external noise interruption
• Use Google Chrome to access the sessions via Zoom

Joining instructions will be sent to you prior to the start of your course.

FAQs

How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

For urgent enquiries on the day call 0208 394 8349

For a course outline please email Externaltraining@samaritans.org