This workshop is offered to communities as a means of community engagement. It engages a range of community stakeholders in a single activity and allows community assets to be recognised through a community specific scenario focusing on the impact of suicide on individuals, and groups within the community.
The workshop allows the community response to be understood from each stake-holders perspective from the first responders (Police, Ambulance, Funeral Services) through to more longer-term supports such as bereavement support groups, etc. Outline: Topics covered: Postvention; What is suicide and its impacts; Crisis, trauma and grief; What makes it different from other sudden deaths; Work through a case scenario to determine how the community may respond; Self-Care. Brief Summary: Designed for: First Responders, GPs and other front-line responders, community organisations, community suicide prevention action groups. Purpose: To engage organisations to participate in developing a strategic and planned approach to suicide postvention within their community to support those bereaved or impacted by suicide
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