Below is an update from Community Links on the various upcoming courses they have available in 2025.
SafeTALK: https://www.commlinks.co.uk/training/courses/safetalk-24feb2025/
- Wednesday 24 February 2025
- Wednesday 5 March 2025
- Thursday 27 March 2025
This three-hour course is suitable for anyone who may come into contact with individuals at risk of suicide, either at work or in their personal life. It is not suitable for those who have recently been bereaved by suicide. It will help you to:
- recognise those who may be at risk of suicide
- ask individuals clearly and openly about their thoughts of suicide
- connect individuals at risk to local sources of help
SafeTALK is a Being You Leeds funded courses therefore FREE to all frontline workers in Leeds including volunteers and peer mentors (subject to eligibility).
ASIST: https://www.commlinks.co.uk/training/courses/asist-10feb26-2/
Cost: £199
- Wednesday 26/Thursday 27 February 2025
This is a two day course that aims to break down stereotypes and misinformation about suicide and gives participants an evidence-based approach to those at risk. Participants will have a chance to analyse their own views about suicide, they will be introduced to the intervention model and given opportunities to observe and practice skills in effective suicide intervention. At the end of this two day course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise invitations for help
- Reach out and offer support
- Review the risk of suicide
- Apply a suicide intervention model
- Link people with community resources
Cultural competency: Booking form
Cost: £99
- 30 January 2025
- 20 February 2025
- 17 March 2025
This 4-hour course will allow participants to increase knowledge and understanding around the impact of structural inequalities on mental health and how they can address this in their practice. The session will look at how trauma is linked to mental health, how individual experience is shaped by cultural attitudes and how understanding intersectionality and cultural humility can improve outcomes for a variety of groups. At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Recognise those that may be experiencing poor mental health and provide
them with first-level support and early intervention - Improved knowledge of cultural attitudes to mental health
Encourage a person to identify and access sources of professional help and
other supports - Increased cultural humility and increased awareness of internal stereotypes
- Practice active listening and empathy
- Key principle of Trauma Informed practice
- Have a conversation with improved mental health literacy around language
and stigma - Increased knowledge and understanding around the impact of structural inequalities on mental