Suicide Safer Prevention Training

Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are commissioning a Bi-borough Suicide Safer Initiative Service. The aims of the new service are as follows:- - Increase the number and proportion of people who are more aware of who is at risk of suicide and ways it can be prevented, including ensuring more people encountering individuals at risk of suicide or self-harm have the appropriate knowledge, skills, or confidence to support them. - Improve understanding of mental well-being amongst trainees and increase confidence in their ability to support others and signpost to appropriate sources of support. - Skill-up communities and service providers to identify individuals at risk of suicide and respond appropriately - relevant measures will include: increasing the number of people trained in suicide alertness and the impact/risk of self-harm; and, the proportion of trained individuals who have improved knowledge, skills and confidence in identifying individuals at risk. The impacts implications of mental health and wellbeing and may triggers for people to have suicidal thoughts. Public Health are therefore looking to commission a provider to deliver a suicide safer community initiative for people within the City of Westminster and RBKC.