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Choose Life Renfrewshire delivers training in Suicide Awareness and Intervention Skills which is available to community groups and people interested in suicide prevention.

In the Calendar year of 2010 Choose Life worked in partnership with Social Work colleagues, NHS, Spark of Genius and RAMH to deliver a total of 30 training courses to 545 participants.

The National Target is to reduce the suicide rate between 2002 and 2013 by 20%, supported by 50% of key frontline staff in mental health and substance misuse services, primary care, and accident and emergency being educated and trained in using suicide assessment tools/suicide prevention training programmes by 2010.

Within Renfrewshire we have trained 67% of key frontline staff to 2010, by delivering a range of training courses since the target was introduced.

Links to Scottish Government information:

• Suicide Prevention - HEAT Target
• Suicide Prevention - Statistics

Some of our training courses include:










We will be holding an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course on 15 and 16 December 2011. Please see links below :

ASIST course information (pdf - 91Kb)

ASIST course application form (pdf - 127Kb)

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For more information about any of our training courses please contact:

• email: chooselife.sw@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• telephone: 0141 849 2200
• or write to us at:
  Choose Life
  Abbeymill Business Centre
  Studio 1001 - 1011
  Mile End Mill
  12 Seedhill Road
  Paisley
  PA1 1JS
  

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