Progress Guide
The Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Training and Support Package for Organizations
If you are a mental health organization that
- Is striving for excellence and believes that in order to protect life from suicide, your staff deserves the best tools in the suicide and self-harm prevention arsenal
- Is seeking to bring progress to practice in a sustainable fashion through a blended approach of expert external support with capacity building for in-house training
- Is attempting to embed Just Culture and create an environment where staff feel safe and supported in their duty of candour and desire to learn when things go wrong,
- Is rolling out a Zero Suicide Pathway and aspires to bring clarity of thought to every clinical action and decision through novel approaches for person centered care
…then Progress Guide is the package for you.
Progress Guide is the most comprehensive support package we provide organizations. The goal is to create a culture of continuous improvement in the care of people in suicidal distress and sustain progress to practice, bringing improvements in the domain of patient safety, patient and staff experience, clinical effectiveness and efficiency.
Benefits of the 4 Pronged Suicide Prevention Package
The four pronged approach ensures a sustainable successful role out. On this year long journey an organization undergoes a fully contextualised:
- Proof of Concept: the initial intensive training of a small cohort of provisional trainers, this ensures that the training matches the needs, values, goals and aspirations of the organization
- Proof of Feasibility: the first year supported organization wide role out, this ensures that experts are at hand for smooth scaling up while the provisional trainers build confidence
- Proof of Translation: supporting simultaneous zero suicide pathway development ensures that skills and competencies gained through training are integrated into care delivery
- Proof of Sustainability: a blended approach of external experts and in-house trainers combined with a learning culture will ensure long term sustainability