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• Mentally Healthy Workplaces (external link): Mentally Healthy Workplace training offers a range of free training options for workplaces. Everyone has a role to play in promoting mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and these courses can support your organisations to so this.
• ASIST (external link): Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training is a two-day interactive course designed to help people learn how to recognise the signs of suicidal thoughts and how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. The course is designed to help all in communities to become more willing, ready and able to help persons at risk of suicide.
• safeTALK (external link) : safeTALK is a half day session aimed at giving participants the skills to recognise that someone may be suicidal and to connect the person to someone with suicide intervention skills. It is designed for communities or organisations that already have ASIST trained helpers in place to maximise intervention as the main suicide prevention focus.
• suicideTALK (external link): suicideTalk is a short exploration and awareness session. It can take between one to three hours with the content adapted to meet the needs of the group. The talk encourages participants to explore their attitudes and feelings about suicide, based around the question “should we talk about suicide?”
• STORM (external link): Skills–based Training On Risk Management is a suicide prevention training package for frontline workers in health, social and criminal justice services. It focuses on developing, through rehearsal, the skills needed to assess and manage a person at risk of suicide.
• Scotland's Mental Health First Aid (external link): SMHFA is a twelve hour course designed to teach people how to support a person developing a difficulty with their mental health or in a mental health crisis. The first aid is given to provide comfort and preserve life until appropriate help is received or until the crisis resolves.

Reviewed 23 February 2010