Connections Link Life: Emotional health and Suicide Prevention (Awareness & Skills)

Duration: 3.5hrs including a comfort break

Location:  EA Omagh Office, Board Room

Date:  Wednesday 11th March 2026

Course Description:

This emotional health and suicide prevention education and skills course is aimed at those in workplaces, advice, community, school, and health settings who are in a caregiving role or for those who with a responsibility to reduce emotional distress and prevent suicide.

This course will teach and practice the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, intervene and de-escalate risk through establishing a safety plan.

The course helps you help people in your workplace, organisation, group, church, school or community who may be in emotional distress or having thoughts of suicide get the help and support they need to keep themselves safe.

This training course covers:

• Contributing factors that lead to poor mental health, emotional distress & suicide prevention awareness
• Understanding the role of mental health and emotions in relation to suicide prevention awareness
• Connect 4-Way Model for helping persons experiencing emotional distress or suicide
• Tools & resources for support in your community
• The role of self-care and wellbeing in fortifying mental health and preventing suicide

This training course is for:

• Adults aged 18 years +
• Who live or work in Northern Ireland
• It is important you click to read and understand *Am I Suitable?*(link is external)

Participation & Readiness:

We ask that you are emotionally ready for suicide prevention awareness training and understand how to participate;

• Suicide prevention awareness training is potentially triggering
• Be confident in your ability to cope with the content of the training
• Take steps to keep yourself emotionally safe during training
• Best practice advises that people who have been bereaved by suicide or by any other traumatic death within the last 6 months, should not attend
• It is important that you click to read and understand the *How To Participate group agreement*

To register for this event please complete the registration to the right of this page.