Recovery and Resilience Project

Lifeline's Recovery and Resilience (R&R) project provides fully funded (Free) community training for this in New England North West, North West and Northern New South Wales. We aim to support people experiencing difficulty by connecting them to our crisis support, accessible referral services and education to support community capacity building.

The project is jointly delivered by Lifeline Northern NSW and Lifeline New England North West and covers 10 Local Government Areas to the end of 2023. This project is made possible by funding from the Australian Government.

Training Courses & Workshops

Lifeline is a registered training organisation with a broad range of training programs, including Accidental Counsellor, safeTalk, ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, Mental Health First Aid, Mind Your Mates, All About You, START - Online Suicide Prevention. Find out more about our training courses below.

Find out more about our Training Courses

Our training programs come in a variety of shapes and sizes: face-to-face, online, long, short and in-between. Lifeline works closely with people who have a lived and living experience of suicide to develop evidence-based programs to keep Australians safe.

We prepare caregivers to be ready, willing and able to respond when someone needs their help. Find out more about training courses and workshops below.

All About You: self-care, resilience and recovery

safeTalk

Accidental Counsellor Foundations

ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

Face-to-Face Workshop
Duration: 2 Days

LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) aims to enhance a caregiver’s abilities to help a person at risk avoid suicide. Participants learn to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and respond in ways that help increase their immediate safety and link them to help.

Although it is highly standardised, ASIST has been used in a range of settings with trainees from a variety of backgrounds and countries. ASIST has been implemented in secondary and post-secondary schools, mental health centres, hospitals, social services, public safety agencies and numerous other community settings.

Extensive evaluations of ASIST outcomes have shown that participants demonstrate increased intervention skills, and that ASIST training has led to positive changes in both knowledge and attitudes about suicide.

ASIST is based on principles of adult learning. It values the experiences and contributions that participants bring and encourages people to share actively in the learning process.

Key Features

ASIST facilitates involvement. Participants will spend over half of the workshop in the same small group with one of the two trainers.
Learning is stimulated by audiovisuals and teaching. A suicide first aid model provides the framework for the workshop and skills practice.
The workshop provides opportunities to learn what a person at risk may need from others in order to keep safe and get more help. Participants consider common factors that may flag potential suicide risk.
ASIST has a training focus. Personal and professional experiences that participants bring contribute to everyone’s learning. Experiences with suicide and intervention are focused on the overall learning goal, which is to provide suicide intervention first aid.
Participants are also encouraged to share and reflect on their attitudes about suicide and suicide intervention and hear those of others. People are invited to reflect on how these attitudes may affect their caregiver role with a person at risk and to appreciate diverse perspectives.
The workshop encourages honest, open and direct talk about suicide as part of preparing people to provide suicide intervention first aid.

If you have lost someone to suicide in the last year or so, please speak with one of our training team members before participating in an ASIST workshop. We recommend that you delay your participation, although we appreciate that everyone grieves differently.