Kent - Intermediate Course for Frontline Practitioners - Modular

This course offers comprehensive tools for frontline practitioners working directly with people whose lives are affected by domestic abuse, harmful behaviour, substance use, safeguarding concerns, mental health distress, suicidality, poverty and/or risks to children and families.

We recommend you attend this course is you are a substance misuse practitioner, probation officer, strategically placed police lead (domestic abuse champion, serious case reviewer, safeguarding); safeguarding lead in health settings and perinatal mental health professional.

0 - 19 service staff such as Health Visitors and School Nurses, staff whose core work involves domestic abuse, such as Children’s and Adult’s Social Care, are also well placed to attend.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how domestic abuse can drive suicidality and how to recognise and respond to warning signs/suicide drivers in varied settings, including phone, online, and face-to-face interactions. They will learn how to use the NHS England Staying Safe framework to guide their interventions and collaboratively develop trauma-informed suicide safety plans using Stay Alive app and resources, and link people to any further specialist support they might need.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Reflect on personal resilience needs.

• Discuss DA-related links and drivers of suicidality, including in neurodivergent people, perpetrators, children and young people.

• Identify suicidality across telephone, digital and in-person contact.

• Use the NHS Staying Safe framework to assess safety and structure interventions.

• Develop suicide safety plans using the Stay Alive toolkit and additional DA-context tailored questions.

• Explain multi-agency responses and facilitate access to appropriate emergency, local and national support.

• Apply trauma-informed approaches and explore ways to address intersectional barriers to support people including those with additional vulnerabilities.

Please be informed you MUST attend both sessions of a modular course in order to complete the training.

To be eligible to attend, you must be a frontline practitioner working in Kent

Cancellations:

If you need to cancel your booking, please let us know as soon as possible training@prevent-suicide.org.uk or cancel your ticket through EventBrite. Tickets for this couse are limited, please ensure you give as much notice as possible if you are unable to attend.

The council have paid for this training for any individuals who work or volunteer for Voluntary Sector organisations in Islington, in order to improve perspectives and raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention and where to get help in Islington.

Whilst this training is free to you, it is still a cost to the council. For this reason, we are very keen to ensure that as many people receive training as possible. If you cannot attend, please let us know immediately so that we can offer the place to someone on the waiting list.

Notes regarding the session:

-Please note that ticket sales stop 2 working days before the start of the course date, so please book ahead of the course date.

-If you have a ticket for the course, you will receive a link to the Teams session 2 working days before the course, via email, so please doublecheck the email address you add when filling in your ticket. You should receive a confirmation email shortly after booking a ticket.

-Please ensure you have Teams installed and working ahead of the session. We are unable to issue refunds for those who are unable to attend due to technical difficulties.

-If you do have a ticket and do not receive this link 2 working days before, please contact us with the name of the course and the date and time of the session.

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