James Browne
Question:563. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Health the key provisions of the national education and training plan to support the delivery of Connecting for Life. [37359/16]
View answerTuesday, 29 November 2016
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Connecting for Life, Ireland’s National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020, is currently being implemented. The Strategy provides an implementation and evaluation structure to achieve each of the goals it proposes, with defined actions and a lead agency and key partners in place for each individual objective. The National Office for Suicide Prevention has responsibility for coordination of the national education and training plan.
The key provisions of this plan are as follows:
- Develop a Training Plan for community based training.
- Deliver awareness training programmes prioritising professionals and volunteers across community-based organisations.
- Provide community-based organisations with guidelines, protocols and training on suicide prevention.
- Provide and sustain training to health and social care professionals.
- Provide support and resources for the implementation of the Department’s curriculum and programmes in the promotion of wellbeing in the school community.
- Deliver training in suicide prevention to staff involved in the delivery of relevant services.
- Support professional regulatory bodies to develop and deliver accredited competency based education on suicide prevention to health professionals.
- Recommend the incorporation of suicide prevention training as part of undergraduate curriculum of the relevant professions.
The Suicide Prevention Education and Training plan will be finalised in December 2016.