Suicide Prevention
Consumer-centred, evidence-based training to support people in distress — including those experiencing suicidality.
Care Collaborate Connect is a world-first, consumer-centred approach to suicide prevention that improves the quality of support consumers receive when they're upset or distressed and prevents suicide. Designed for all health professionals who support individuals when they are upset, this comprehensive course moves away from traditional clinician-led risk-management models. Instead, you will learn to support people without taking over or over-managing them. By learning to meet the needs of people asking for help, this framework equips you with practical, strengths-focused strategies that respect consumer agency and autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the relationships between health, wellbeing, and coping, and articulate why people sometimes have thoughts of suicide when they are overwhelmed.
- Apply the consumer-centred Care Collaborate Connect framework to deliver high-quality support to individuals when they are upset or distressed, without taking over their experience.
- Support consumers to strengthen their coping plans with quality professional support when needed.
- Deliver practical targeted interventions that support coping.
What others say
"I very much enjoyed this course. It's great to see a coping-based program developed rather than risk-based. As a psychologist, I've always felt scared about the risk assessment bit of caring for people but coping-based makes it just so much more natural and what clients are actually wanting."
"I am always struck by this approach and how much it increases my confidence in dealing with suicidality."
"This training helped change my misconceptions and assumptions about suicide. It gave me another perspective and a new way to work with people with suicidality."
Backed by science
Care · Collaborate · Connect courses are underpinned by the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and health.
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