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Bereavement Counselling Courses The National Centre of Childhood Grief
Bereavement Counselling Courses The National Centre of Childhood Grief
The National Centre for Childhood Grief (NCCG) offers a variety of courses in Bereavement counselling for health professionals, social workers, school counsellors, psychologists, counsellors, chaplains, teachers, pastoral care workers, or anyone who works with or supports dying or bereaved adults and children.
- The Core Course in Bereavement Counselling
- The Post-Graduate Diploma Course: a course on counceling bereaved children offered to suitably qualified, experienced counsellors who wish to specialise in bereavement counselling.
- Support Workers Training
- The Working with Children Course
- Working With Bereaves / Dying Adults
- Working With Bereaved Children
The National Centre for Childhood Grief (NCCG) also offer the possibility of tailored courses and/or workshops for your organisation to run at your premises. All Courses are accredited with AASW, ACA.
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Email: Â info@childhoodgrief.org.au
Communities Matter
Communities Matter
Communities Matter is a toolkit to support small towns and local communities to turn conversations and interest in suicide prevention into activities that reflect local need. The toolkit outlines in plain English evidence-informed suicide prevention strategies to support communities to undertake suicide prevention activities and combat stigma. The Communities Matter toolkit was informed by a writing group of key suicide prevention experts.
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International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
IASP is a Non-Governmental Organization in official relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) concerned with suicide prevention.The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is dedicated to preventing suicidal behaviour, alleviating its effects and providing a forum for academics, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and suicide survivors. IASP includes professionals and volunteers from more than fifty different countries.
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Address: C/o AAS 5221 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington DC 20015 USA
Irish Association of Suicidology (IAS)
Irish Association of Suicidology (IAS)
The IAS disseminates information about suicide and suicide prevention so that public opinion can respond to the issue in an informed manner. It is a forum where all organisations can come together and exchange knowledge regarding any aspect of Suicidology from differing perspectives and experiences. It aims to:
- Assure that suicide is not ignored by the statutory authorities dealing with health, education and the environment.
- Provide concerted coordinated action by all parts of society.
The IAS highlights various aspects of suicide and attempts to influence public policy and ensure that positive action is taken to provide adequate strategies to combat suicidolgy in our society.
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Postal Address: P.O. Box 11634 Ballsbridge, Ireland
Email: info@ias.ie
Multisite Intervention Study on Suicidal Behaviours (SUPRE-MISS) World Health Organisation
Multisite Intervention Study on Suicidal Behaviours (SUPRE-MISS) World Health Organisation
The WHO Multisite Intervention Study on Suicidal Behaviours (SUPRE-MISS) was carried out in participating sites from all the six WHO regions in the early 2000s (SUPRE meaning SUicide PREvention, the WHO worldwide initiative for the prevention of suicide, with the overall objective to reduce mortality and morbidity due to suicidal behaviours). SUPRE-MISS had three components:
- Community description: Description of basic socio-cultural characteristics of each participating site.
- Community survey: Identification of suicidal behaviours at the community level.
- Intervention study: Evaluation of treatment strategies for suicide attempters in a randomized controlled trial comparing Treatment as usual (TAU) to Brief intervention
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Optimizing Suicide Prevention Programs and Their Implementation in Europe" (OSPI-Europe)
Optimizing Suicide Prevention Programs and Their Implementation in Europe" (OSPI-Europe)
Optimizing suicide prevention programs and their implementation in Europe" (OSPI-Europe) was a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The goal of OSPI-Europe was to provide EU members with an evidence based prevention concept for suicidality. Further, concrete materials and instruments for running and evaluating these interventions and recommendations for the proper implementation of the intervention have been developed and disseminated. The OSPI project was funded by the European Commission under the 7th framework programme.
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Address: European Alliance against Depression e.V. Goerdelerring 9 04109 Leipzig
Country: Germany
Email: contact@eaad.net
Suicide The World Health Organisation
Suicide The World Health Organisation
The Suicide Attempt Surveillance department of the World Health Organisation provides a tool to provide surveillance and monitoring of suicide attempts and self-harm is a core element of suicide prevention and needed for all countries.
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Address: World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland
Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership
Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership
Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership is an emerging collaboration between charities in the UK based on our vision that “People bereaved by suicide have the right to appropriate support services. The Suicide Bereavement Support Partnership work together to:
- Share learning and best practice
- Deliver joint initiatives which improve the range and quality of available services
- Increase awareness of the services available and
- Build relationships between our organisations enabling appropriate signposting and referrals.
Current participants include:
- CALM
- Winstons Wish
- Compassionate Friends
- Maytree
- Cruse
- Papyrus
- If U Care Share
- Child Bereavement Network
- Matthew Elvidge Trust
- Samaritans and
- The James Wentworth Stanley Memorial Fund.
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The Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities (TASC)
The Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities (TASC)
The Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities (TASC) is an alliance of the leading charities dealing with suicide prevention and mental health issues. They encourage collaboration and prevent duplication of efforts and funding in the area of suicide research and prevention. TASC holds quarterly meetings to discuss common goals, current research and future actions.
- National Suicide Prevention Strategy: a new cross-government strategy ‘Preventing suicide in England‘ on World Suicide Prevention Day.
- Providing Funding to Appropriate Organisations
- Modernisation of the Coroners’ System
- Training: a group responsible for discussing priorities for the implementation of optimal strategies for the training of professionals remarked that there was an absence of training pertaining to suicide prevention.
- Research
- Call To Action: the Call to Action consists of over 50 national organisations from across England to work together so fewer lives are lost to suicide and people bereaved or affected by suicide receive the right support.
- Taking the Guildford Consensus Forward on Optimal Suicide Prevention Strategies
- Feeling Suicide Resources
- Worried About Someone Resources
- Bereaved By Suicide Resources
- Education,Guidelines and Training
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Email: tascuk@gmail.com