Supporting adults bereaved of a child by suicide
Online training | 3 hours | Intermediate training
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About this event
This online training aims to provide a greater understanding of the impact on family and friends when a young person dies by suicide.
Who is this training for?
This training is suitable for individuals whose work brings them into contact with grieving families, for example: health and social care staff, faith leaders, emergency service personnel, and charities.
What will I learn?
During this training, you will:
- Increase awareness of how families bereaved of a child respond to loss, death and bereavement.
- Gain awareness of additional challenges faced by those families bereaved by suicide.
- Develop greater confidence in providing support to, and communicating with, people bereaved by suicide.
- Explore ways of talking about death by suicide.
- Develop awareness of the role of postvention in reducing suicide risk.
- Develop an awareness of the challenges of the work and the importance of looking after yourself.
- Receive information about Child Bereavement UK and other support organisations, and resources available.
You may also be interested in:
- Supporting colleagues bereaved by suicide | Intermediate training
- Understanding traumatic bereavement in adults | Intermediate training
- Supporting adults when a child dies | Intermediate training
- Bespoke training or consultancy and supervision
- Information, support and guidance for professionals working within health and social care
- Support for professionals
Before booking on any training, please read our training terms and conditions. We encourage prospective participants to consider their own experience of loss and how it might affect them during training. Our training may not be suited to someone who has experienced a recent bereavement.
If you would like to know more about training from Child Bereavement UK, please email training@childbereavementuk.org.
Frequently asked questions
For bespoke training, we are able to offer an invoice payment option. For Eventbrite bookings we are able to offer a limited invoicing option. To discuss this please contact us at training@childbereavementuk.org.
Child Bereavement UK is a charity and does not charge any tax or VAT. Your Eventbrite confirmation is the only receipt we can provide for your purchase.
Once the sales have ended, no further attendees can be added on Eventbrite. However, do get in touch with us and we can check if there are any places available: training@childbereavementuk.org.
The best way to find out about upcoming courses is by signing up to our training newsletter: www.childbereavementuk.org/newsletter. You can also check our latest training dates at www.childbereavementuk.org/training.
If you attend one of our 3-hour training courses, we aim to email out certificates as well as the e-pack of the slides within one week. If you attend one of our short webinars, certificates are usually accessed online after you have given feedback via the survey.
In some instances we may be able to accommodate such requests. Please email us at training@childbereavementuk.org to see if this is possible with at least 24 hours' notice. Less than 24 hours notice may be possible but will incur an additional fee.
We aim to email joining instructions one to two days before the training. If you have not received them, please double check your junk/spam folder. If this is still unsuccessful please email us at training@childbereavementuk.org.
Our bereavement support team is available to respond to calls, Live Chat and email 9am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays): Helpline 0800 028 8840, Live Chat on our website, www.childbereavementuk.org or email helpline@childbereavementuk.org.
If you are attending a 3-hour training session, we will be able to see and hear you and you will be able to interact with the other delegates and the facilitator. If you are attending a shorter webinar your audio and video are automatically disabled but you can ask questions via the Q&A function.
Latecomers will not be admitted 10 minutes after the start time, please ensure you allow plenty of time. In the event of a technical issue at our end we will allow time for this to be sorted so that you do not lose out on training time. We use Zoom for online training (unless otherwise indicated).
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