Resource Office For Suicide Prevention

Additional Service Information

Referral Process

• Other healthcare/socialcare provider

Service Description

The Resource Office for Suicide Prevention, is part of the HSE Dublin and Midlands Mental Health Service, and it is aligned to the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) with regard to the implementation of the National Strategy to Reduce Suicide – Connecting for Life www.connectingforlife.ie

HSE Midlands IHA (Laois, Offaly, Longford and Westmeath) has one Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention (ROSP)

Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention (ROSP) HSE role is to:

• Co-ordinate and implement Connecting for Life.
• Coordinate and integrate suicide prevention service delivery and mental health promotion by working in partnership with statutory, voluntary and community groups
• Co-ordinate NOSP suite of training programmes in the region  Midlands Training
• Co-ordinate suicide critical incident response and including postvention supports
• Assist with the development and implementation of new suicide prevention initiatives and services
• Assist a community to respond to suspected suicide in a safe, balanced, and effective way.

List of Services Available

The various components of the work of the Resource Officers include:

• Co-ordinate and implement of the National Strategy to Reduce Suicide ‘Connecting for Life’ across the HSE Midlands IHA
• Deliver postvention responses in communities when appropriate
• Signpost to services that support people who may be at risk of suicide and services that provide bereavement support to people after a suspected suicide.

Coordinate the delivery of NOSP Training Programmes:

• Let’s Talk About Suicide – 60 mins online self-directed learning programme Let’s Talk About Suicide
• safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone) 3-hours (one half day)
• S.I.S.T. (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) 2-day
• Introduction to Self-Harm – 2 hours online/in-person workshop
• Understanding Self-Harm – 1 day in-person workshop
• Bereavement Support Workshop for Professionals and Key-Contacts (providing support to those bereaved through suicide) 1-day Workshop.

All training programmes are for 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟴𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 and are free of charge to the participant.

The workshops are designed to be helpful and supportive; however, it is recommended that anyone recently bereaved should consider waiting 12 months before participating in training.

To access information on upcoming training, please visit  Midlands Training

Wheelchair Access

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