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Here is an easy one-hour online training to get all your staff versed in suicide prevention skills (click here to start the training)
Once you and your staff have completed the Blackdog Institute's Recognise and Respond course download and print a copy of the following posters and documents, for each participating staff member, so they have them ready in case a BRAVE & TRICKY conversation around suicide is needed.
Please ensure each staff member has a copy of:
1) Poster for How To Assist Someone in Distress.
2) The GLASS EMPTY brochure - a supportive guide for suicide prevention.
3) Whisperers ringing 000.
4) Good samaritan document.
5) How Am I Check-In Document.
6) Group Sharing Protocols.
These steps are important for recognising when someone is in a state of suicide distress. Keeping these documents in an easy to access folder allows staff to respond to someone in distress quickly and effectively.
Here is an easy one-hour online training to get all your staff versed in suicide prevention skills (click here to start the training)
Once you and your staff have completed the Blackdog Institute's Recognise and Respond course download and print a copy of the following posters and documents, for each participating staff member, so they have them ready in case a BRAVE & TRICKY conversation around suicide is needed.
Please ensure each staff member has a copy of:
1) Poster for How To Assist Someone in Distress.
2) The GLASS EMPTY brochure - a supportive guide for suicide prevention.
3) Whisperers ringing 000.
4) Good samaritan document.
5) How Am I Check-In Document.
6) Group Sharing Protocols.
These steps are important for recognising when someone is in a state of suicide distress. Keeping these documents in an easy to access folder allows staff to respond to someone in distress quickly and effectively.
Step 1
Download, print and read the following poster. Then place it in a visible area for staff to see. Either in an easy to find folder for quick access or on a vacant wall available to staff.
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Step 2
Download this Supportive Guide for Suicide Prevention, print and read it. It is designed to be double-sided to be printed on the short-edge option. This guide is to be given to someone in distress when they have deployed the GLASS EMPTY Signal and asked for help, or when they have discreetly handed over a GLASS EMPTY coaster to staff for a check-in.
This gives you some time between recognising when someone is in distress and when you are able to start a conversation to either get them feeling safe again (if you have the time to do so) or to find someone in the community who can assist.
This gives you some time between recognising when someone is in distress and when you are able to start a conversation to either get them feeling safe again (if you have the time to do so) or to find someone in the community who can assist.
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Step 3
Download, print and read the following images that you'd prefer for the men's and women's restroom posters in your venue. Place the posters on the back of restroom walls and above the men's urinal.
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Step 4
Read the What to Do When You Ring 000 Guide, and in the next document, check out your responsibilities for providing assistance to a person in suicide distress.
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Step 5
Watch the following 70-minute presentation and training video from Jono Hart, The OG Pub Whisperer, to gain extra skills and understand why community suicide prevention is so important and crucially needed right now.
Step 6.
Create a resource list of professional support services in your local area. This could include GP's, psychologists and mental health support providers. Distribute it among your local Whisperer Team. (You can use the Aldinga Whisperer Team Resource below as a guide.
*Note the resources available on this document give the person in distress autonomy in how they receive support.
*Note the resources available on this document give the person in distress autonomy in how they receive support.
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Step 7
Once your staff feel confident enough to engage and navigate a BRAVE & TRICKY Conversation around suicide with someone in distress please forward the name of your venue and their first and last names to [email protected] to receive a GLASS EMPTY & The Whisperer Team certificate for that staff member.
Additional Support
If you're struggling to build rapport with someone in distress, try checking-in use the B.R.A.V.E. acronym and sharing protocols in the documents below. These documents can also be used for group sharing within a Whisperer Team.
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