Training

Zero Suicide Alliance

The Zero Suicide Alliance have FREE online training courses teaching you the skills and confidence to have a potentially life-saving conversation with someone you’re worried about. 

• Suicide awareness training - full version (20 minutes)
• Suicide awareness training - gateway module (5 to 10 minutes)
• Social isolation training - step-up module
• Suicide awareness training - university student edition
• Suicide awareness training - veteran edition
• Suicide awareness training - taxi driver edition

PAPYRUS

PAPYRUS offer a range of suicide prevention training for individuals, workplaces and communities across the UK.

• SP-ARK Suicide Prevention – Awareness, Resource, Knowledge. An introduction to PAPYRUS and Suicide Prevention
• SP-OT Suicide Prevention – Overview Tutorial
• SP-EAK Suicide Prevention – Explore, Ask, Keep-Safe. An introduction to suicide prevention skills
• ASIST Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (2 days)

For any enquiries about the training courses, please email training@papyrus-uk.org

St Helens Wellbeing Service

St Helens Wellbeing Service offer online training on topics such as 5 Ways to Wellbeing, Stress and Anxiety, Basic Suicide Awareness and more. Visit the St Helens Wellbeing website for more information.

Professional guidance

• Business in the community suicide prevention guidance
  Reducing the risk of suicide: a preventative guide for employers. This toolkit provides guidance and advice on how to incorporate suicide prevention into an employer’s workplace health and wellbeing framework.
• Business in the community crisis management
  Crisis management in the event of a suicide: a postvention guide for employers: offering practical and sensitive guidance for employers to follow in the aftermath of an employee suicide.

Guidance for schools

• Building Suicide Safer Schools and Colleges
• Step by Step - Samaritans postvention service for educational and youth settings
• Mental health and wellbeing resources for teachers and teaching staff

Guide for agencies and practitioners 

A Cheshire and Merseyside Children and Young People's Self-Harm Practice Guide has been developed for agencies and practitioners to support children and young people who have thoughts of, are about to or have self-harmed.

Children and young people safety planning resources

Follow the link to the Liverpool CAMHS safety planning resource website. On this page, you'll find a range of useful films, practical tools and resources that can help a young person understand their thoughts of suicide and keep them safe.