Objectives: CALM Care (Connect – Ask – Refer – Exit)
• Recognise the impact of suicide and distinguish between myths and facts.
• Debate identifying risk factors, warning signs, protective factors versus identifying life stressors in suicide prevention and review recent research.
• Practice how to ask about suicide and discuss overcoming stigma associate with the concept of suicide.
• Develop a warm referral technique and strategies to ensure both professional and community support networks.
• Recognise the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and moral injury and formulate a self-care plan. Outline: CALM C-A-R-E is a 3-hour awareness presentation that teaches four key actions: Connect, Ask, Refer, Exit to reduce stigma and fear, to build confidence, awareness and skills and so enable participants to start a positive, and potentially life-saving conversation about suicide. CALM C-A-R-E equips and empowers participants to recognise and respond to warning signs of suicide, ask about suicide in a non-judgemental and open way and then warm refer the person needing hope to services for further support. Brief Summary: The program delivery is based on adult learning principles and draws on PowerPoints, group activities, role plays and video demonstrations. Participants are provided with a 16 page reference booklet, a CALM Care App which can be provided to those they are assisting to facilitate help seeking, and a certificate of completion.
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