The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to be more comfortable with talking about suicide and self harm with young people and adults.

• Self care when attending training about potentially distressing topics
• What is suicide?
• How to support someone who is suicidal: examples of things to say, signposting to support, self-care
• What is self-harm?
• What issues does self-harm raise for workers>
• Why do people self-harm?
• What are the needs of people who self-harm?
• Strategies – what to say/what not to say, coping strategies, harm minimisation, making a support map
• Strategies to support ourselves as workers
• What to do in an emergency
• Sources of support

Please book your places via Trent self-service or email practice.development@powys.gov.uk