peersWALK™ ⚠️ Situational Suicide Prevention Training

peersWALK™⚠️ Situational Suicide Prevention Training gives you the confidence, skills and tools to WALK one of your peers across the road of suicide or situational distress. ⚠️ 1 in 20 Australians have had thoughts of suicide… ⚠️ Do you know the signs? ⚠️ Do you have the confidence, skills and tools to engage and respond to suicide? ⚠️ To WALK one of your peers across the road of suicide? Situational Suicide Prevention acknowledges the distress of your peer rather than automatically assuming mental illness or disorder, with suicide thoughts (though in some cases the two are linked). It responds to significantly challenging experiences of mind. This includes thoughts, emotions, sensations, or behaviours, associated with an inability to compensate for a distressing event, such as: bereavement, relationship breakdown, change in health status, natural disasters, pandemics, financial, or occupational difficulties. This distress may significantly overlap with many of the symptoms usually taken to suggest mental ‘illness’ or ‘distress’. www.peersWALK.org peersWALK™ is a community based training for first responders, gatekeepers and peers who care enough to WALK someone across the road of suicide. It is built and delivered with lived experience by Parents Beyond Breakup Ltd - the life saving not for profit charity that is 'Keeping Parents Alive, and In Their Kids Lives' www.parentsbeyondbreakup.com