Important consumer information for safeTALK participants

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Your safeTALK trainer provided you with his/her name and/or his/her trainer number. This indicates that your trainer has completed a standardized training, meets or intends to meet LivingWorks’ requirement to present a minimum number of safeTALKs per year and reports on their trainings. Being listed also means that the trainer has access to ongoing support.

Your safeTALK should have taken place over about three hours. There should have been between ten and 30 participants, although a minimum of 15 is much preferred. The training would have been delivered in either English or French.

You should have been informed about local suicide intervention resources and their availability in your community should have been discussed. To protect the balance between safety and challenge, safeTALK should have been delivered in a way that did not encourage individuals to disclose personal things in the whole group. A community support resource with whom you could talk if you wished would almost always be in attendance and identified to you early in the training.

You should have seen two versions of six video scenes designed to show the difference between a non-alert and an alert helper. You should have received a resource booklet, certificate, wallet card, and stickers (see image on this page).

You should have the sense that your trainer was prepared and that he/she encouraged participation and took all participant contributions seriously.

If you were not told, you should know that the small financial return to LivingWorks for this training is mostly used to offset the initial and on-going development costs of safeTALK and to cover the costs of supporting your trainer and maintaining quality. All of those costs were paid and financed by LivingWorks. There are no subsidies, government grants or tax benefits.

If you have questions about any of these matters, please take them up with your safeTALK trainer. There are sometimes quite good reasons for exceptions. If you cannot contact your trainer, send your concerns to safetalk@livingworks.net and we will pass them on to your trainer.

 

Last updated February 17, 2010