{"id":3256,"date":"2026-06-24T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:01:20","slug":"public-health-self-harm-suicide-prevention-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/2026\/06\/24\/public-health-self-harm-suicide-prevention-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Self Harm &amp; Suicide Prevention Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention for Children and Young People training This is a bespoke half day facilitated training session covering Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention for Children and Young People. It is aimed at anybody working with children and young people who are likely to have direct and\/or substantial contact with those who may be at risk of self-harm or suicide. The content is drawn from the NHS Education for Scotland Skilled Level Learning Bytes 3 and 4 (see above). The session covers: Facts and trends associated with self-harm and suicide in young people; common risk, protective and stress factors related to self-harm and suicide in young people; an awareness of the impact a sensitive, compassionate approach can achieve when discussing self-harm and suicide (using the principles of Time, Space and Com passion); the links between self-harm, suicidal thoughts and trauma informed practice and; approaches to support including the steps involved in safety planning. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Anyone attending this training must first complete the Informed Level e-module \u2018Promoting children and young people\u2019s mental health and preventing self harm and suicide\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> October 2026<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 19 November 2026<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 4<sup>th<\/sup> March 2027 \u2013 looks fine<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 13th May 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can also offer the opportunity to deliver the course for a specific staff group.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact <a href=\"mailto:health.improvement@borders.scot.nhs.uk\">health.improvement@borders.scot.nhs.uk<\/a> for course information and dates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention for Children and Young People training This is a bespoke half day facilitated training session covering Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention for Children and Young People. It is aimed at anybody working with children and young people who are likely to have direct and\/or substantial contact with those who may be at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}