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Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training

safeTALK workshop for members and close friends

DATE: Friday 26th March 2021
TIME: 10.30am - approx 3.30pm
LOCATION: Soul Café, Level 2, Cnr Hunter & Watt Streets, Newcastle
COST: $20 (for lunch)
RSVP: By 22nd March to Lesley Slevin at lslevin64@gmail.com


Following on from our February breakfast meeting, LivingWorks is providing free training to the Collective Heart and Soul Café families to increase suicide awareness and explore support strategies that can have practical impacts on society. Participants will receive a certificate at the end of this session.  

After this workshop has been conducted LivingWorks are will be happy to explore holding the 2-day ASIST program with Collective Heart & Soul Cafe. Please note that places are limited.

About the workshop

safeTALK is a half-day alertness workshop that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognise these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.

Since its development in 2006, safeTALK has been used in over 20 countries around the world, and more than 200 selectable video vignettes have been produced to tailor the program’s audio-visual component for diverse audiences. safeTALK-trained helpers are an important part of suicide-safer communities, working alongside intervention resources to identify and avert suicide risks.

Workshop features:

  • Presentations and guidance from a LivingWorks registered trainer

  • Access to support from a local community resource person

  • Powerful audiovisual learning aids

  • The simple yet effective TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe

  • Hands-on skills practice and development

safeTALK helps expand the reach of suicide intervention skills in communities around the world. To learn more or to support this life-saving program visit the LivingWorks website.

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2 March

Breakfast meeting