Managing Suicidal Conversations Half-Day Course- PM

Hampshire County Council has commissioned Managing Suicidal Conversations training from the Samaritans.  Due to Covid-19 these courses have been moved online and will be delivered via Zoom.

The training course provides participants with the skills and confidence to recognise and engage with a potentially suicidal person to help prevent the immediate risk of suicide and to signpost them to support. The training course is free and half a day in duration.

The training is open to staff and volunteers from a range of organisations and is suitable for anyone, regardless of prior experience, whose role may bring them into direct contact with people who have suicidal feelings. This could include, for example, relevant public-sector staff, emergency services, car parking attendants, security staff, school staff, voluntary sector organisations, service user support roles, local business/shop staff, transport roles etc. This list of potential attendees is given by way of example and is not exhaustive. 

Information details as a result will be shared between Samaritans and Hampshire County Council. Anonymised information from the course evaluation sheets will be shared between Samaritans and HCC. This data will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the training, supporting HCC’s suicide prevention work programme.

Course Timings: 13.15 p.m. to 16.30 p.m.

Course objectives:

• Show that you can listen.

• Understanding and using the Samaritans Listening Wheel

• Understand the social and economic links to suicidal thoughts and feelings.

• Awareness of suicidal statistics

• Ending conversations

• Support or refer someone who is feeling suicidal.