Hounslow Council will be launching a new suicide awareness campaign on the 10th September to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day. Entitled Be Their One, the campaign will encourage residents to take the 20 minute Zero Suicide Alliance suicide awareness training so that they’re able to support friends, family, colleagues and neighbours who’re struggling with their mental health. It also provides details of the Hounslow Safe Space Helpline which is open to support residents (aged 18+) from 11am-11pm every day of the year.
Colleagues will also be encouraged to take the training: 20 minute suicide awareness training (zerosuicidealliance.com). If you’ve already completed it, you might like to take the new Autism and Suicide Awareness version at: Autism and Suicide Awareness Training :: Zero Suicide Alliance
Additional Training offer
Thrive London are also offering free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations. To complete all the available training, starting from the introduction through bronze, silver and gold levels takes close to 5 hours in total. Building on feedback, they have developed a bitesize approach to help make things more manageable and less overwhelming.
You can subscribe to an eight-week programme and you’ll receive the training chapter-by-chapter direct into your inbox. This means you can spend around 20-30 minutes per week engaging with the training. By week 8 you’ll have fully completed the training programme and will be awarded gold level status ‘Committed to Trauma Informed Practice’.
For more information and to sign up see: Trauma-Informed Practice training - Thrive LDN
All communications materials for this campaign will be published prior to the launch date and shared with colleagues so that the materials can be disseminated out to networks and residents.