2020
LGBT+ Suicide Prevention/Self-Harm Training Workshop
This is part of the Hampshire CAMHS RESPECT project
Venue: Mountbatten School, Whitenap Lane, Romsey, SO51 5SY
9am-3pm
Free training for professionals (education, social care, health, voluntary sector) on LGBTQ+ in youth including considering factors such as mental health.
LGBT+ Suicide and Self Harm Prevention Training is a 1 day interactive, informative and thought provoking face-to-face workshop, that allows participants to experience how it may feel to be in the shoes of an LGBT+ person in our society, and highlights the difficulties faced on a day to day basis by LGBT+ people.
The objective of the workshop is to:
Improve the ability of organisations, teams and suicide programmes who work with the LGBT+ community to identify individuals who are suicidal or whom deliberately self-harm.
After the training workshop participants will have the following skills:
- Ability to describe relevant research related to LGBT+ Suicide behaviour and self-harm
- Ability to discuss LGBT+ suicide/ self-harm risk and protective factors
- Ability to assess LGBT+ Cultural competence of team/ organisation
- Ability to increase personal LGBT+ cultural competence
