SAYiT are working alongside the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Sheffield City Council, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Doncaster City Council to deliver an LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Training Programme.

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This training course is aimed to assist service providers who want to ensure their environment is LGBTQ+ inclusive and harm reductive.

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Suitable for all professionals in South Yorkshire who work with or encounter people from LGBTQ+ communities and in particular LGBTQ+ young people.

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This is a rolling programme of 2-tiered training sessions across the South Yorkshire region. Training attendees must complete the LGBTQ+ Awareness (Level 1) before they are able to attend level 2 – LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention (Level 2).

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The course is free to attend for professionals working in South Yorkshire.
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Level 1 - LGBTQ+ Awareness - 3.5hrs (CPD Accredited)
Learning outcomes from this course include:

• A clear understanding of the difference between sex and gender

• How to promote inclusion, and become an ally

• Understanding the impact of LGBTQ+ phobia and discrimination

• A familiarity with key terms, language and LGBTQ+ identities

• Knowledge of the laws that protect LGBTQ+ people

• How to identify support, and signposting

 

Training attendee takes away an LGBTQ+ Awareness Booklet containing up to date terminology, definitions, allyship, etc.

 

Level 2 - LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention - 3.5hrs (CPD Accreditation pending)

Proposed learning outcomes from this course include:

• Lived experience case studies and examples

• Why getting it right is important

• Person centred conversational techniques

• Facts and numbers about Mental Health / LGBTQ+ Mental Health

• What the current data shows, locally and nationally

• Engaging workshops to improve understanding

• Suicide prevention strategy

 

Training attendee takes away LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention workbook and creates own tangible resource about LGBTQ+ suicide prevention in their workplace.

 

Who the training is for?                                                                                          

This training programme is for front line workers, their managers and those who engage with LGBTQ+ communities, with a focus on LGBTQ+ young people.

The below list is not exhaustive but highlights fields of work that the training is designed for:

Social Workers and Trainees, Family Intervention Workers, Foster Carers, Leaving Care Team, Young people’s Residential Units, Children’s Hospitals, A & E staff, CAMHS, GP Surgeries staff and Receptionists, Walk in Centres, Sexual Health Clinics, Senior Leadership Teams (Head Teachers, Head of Years, Governors, Teachers / Teaching Assistants, Pastoral Care, School Nurse, Alternative Provision Providers, Pupil Referral Units, Safeguarding Leads.

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