Community TouchPoints Trainers | Nepean Blue Mountains PHN

We all have a role to play in suicide prevention

Be a Community TouchPoints Trainer in your Nepean Blue Mountains community

Roses in the Ocean and Nepean Blue Mountains PHN are seeking community members with a personal lived experience of suicide to become a Community TouchPoints Trainer to deliver TouchPoints workshops across the Nepean Blue Mountains region. Roses in the Ocean defines a lived experience of suicide as having: experienced suicidal thoughts; survived a suicide attempt; supported a loved one through suicidal crisis; or been bereaved by suicide.

Community TouchPoints Trainers should have:

• a passion for building suicide prevention and post-vention skills within their community
• a genuine insight into their own lived experience of suicide and the capacity to share these insights in safe and meaningful way
• comfortable in group facilitation and great communication skills
• availability to attend the TouchPoints Train the Trainer program in full
• the ability to arrange and deliver 4 TouchPoints workshops in their community over a 12-month period
• a valid Blue Card for working with children and current National Criminal History Check

Community TouchPoints Trainers will receive:

• lived experience designed and delivered TouchPoints training
• remuneration for all delivered workshops following training
• administrative support from a dedicated Roses in the Ocean team

TouchPoints Train the Trainer Program

Date: Wednesday 3 – Saturday 6 April, 2024

Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm (AEDT)

Location: Blue Mountains, NSW

Register your Expression of Interest

Complete the online application form by clicking below. You’ll then be contacted by a Roses in the Ocean team member to discuss your application and readiness to become a Community TouchPoints Trainer. If you would like further information about this opportunity please call 1300 411 461 or email [email protected].

Register your Expression of Interest