Suicide first aid (SFA) Understanding Suicide Intervention (USI)
Teaching the theory and practise of suicide intervention skills that can be applied in any professional or personal setting, captured in a one-day course accredited by City and Guilds of London. We use only the most experienced suicide prevention trainers to deliver this unique learning experience: for anyone who seeks greater understanding and confidence to intervene with people at risk of suicide.
The Suicide First Aid through Understanding Suicide Intervention (SFAUSI) course gives learners the knowledge and tools to understand that suicide is one of the most preventable deaths and some basic skills can help someone with thoughts of suicide stay safe from their thoughts and stay alive.
Course content:
SFAUSI is comprised of 4 parts, each 90 minutes duration. The programme teaches and practices the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and competently intervene to help create suicide- safety as a first aid approach.
Taught over 6 hours using tutor facilitated Socratic learning, tutor-led role-play, mini lectures, group work exercises and audiovisual presentations. This is a highly interactive and emotionally engaging learning experience.
Who should attend?
Multi-sector practitioners including health, housing, social care, education, criminal justice, call centre operators, private, voluntary and public sector workers and community members.
Accreditation
Participants can choose to register for the City and Guilds accredited unit of learning for an additional fee of £85 per person. This involves completion of a written assignment.
Suicide first aid (SFA) Lite
This programme is delivered over 3 hours as a suicide prevention awareness session. For anyone who seeks greater understanding and confidence to intervene with people at risk of suicide.
The Suicide First Aid Lite course gives learners the knowledge and tools to understand that suicide is one of the most preventable deaths and some basic skills can help someone with thoughts of suicide stay safe from their thoughts and stay alive.
This course can be delivered face to face or online.
Course content:
SFA Lite is comprised of 2 parts, each 90 minutes duration. The programme teaches the skills needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and to pass the person onto a suicide first aider.
Taught over 3 hours using tutor facilitated socratic learning, tutor-led practise sessions, mini lectures, group work and audio-visual presentations. This has some interactive elements and is an emotionally engaging learning experience.
Who should attend?
Multi-sector managers and practitioners including health, housing, social care, education, criminal justice, call centre operators, private, voluntary and public sector workers and community groups or members.
Accreditation
Suicide First Aid Lite training offers learning outcomes that are knowledge based and factual. This training can be used as a stand-alone programme or as the first part of a journey to learn suicide prevention skills.
The one-day programme Suicide First Aid through Understanding Suicide Interventions is a City & Guilds qualification programme and the next step for people wanting a more in-depth practise-based approach to the learning. The information in SFA Lite is easy to grasp for people of all skill levels and those with no prior knowledge of the subject. It is designed to meet the needs of
virtual groups and could be used as a forerunner to the one-day Suicide First Aid Programme.
