STARS-Yp

• To enhance worker capability in administration of STARS-Yp for assessing young people’s suicidality, in a compassionate manner which includes addressing the young person’s safety and documentation of minimum standard of client care.
• To enhance worker understanding of the young person's story by enticing worker reflection on the client-rated concerns of contributing factors towards the suicidal state and experience.
• To assist and guide workers on ways to elicit key the young person’s reported concerns subjectively perceived to contribute to suicidality.
• To provide workers with guiding domains of enquiry concerning empirically based risk and protective factor information, short-term or proximal indicators of suicide risk (e.g. warning signs), and current and past suicidality contexts (based on the subjective meaning of these factors for the client).
• To build on existing worker capabilities around the process of suicide assessment and response, including documentation of actions taken to bring a client towards a life worth living.

STARS-Yp is involves approximately 15 - 20 hours of online learning and a 1-day online skills-based webinar workshop, where skills are developed and assessed to demonstrate competency.

This training comprises of six Modules:

• Module 1: Lived Experience and Clinician Attitudes
• Module 2: Renewed Approach to Suicide Assessment
• Module 3: STARS-Yp Structure and Application
• Module 4: Documentation and Duty of Care
• Module 5: Safety Planning
• Module 6: Self Care

This course is suited to workers who currently or in the past have worked with young people who experience suicidality. Training participants need to have worked or are working with people who experience suicidal distress, and they must have a base level of knowledge of suicide prevention (especially suicide risk and protective factors). It is ideal, but not mandatory that people have a designated supervisor/mentor (or line manager/employer) during participation in the training.

No credentials are applicable for this course. 

You will complete 6 modules over 6 weeks, which include readings, reflections and quizzes. You will select one of the 1-day webinars offered, which will be conducted after module completion. Eligibility for the webinar requires the completion of all modules, including their respective activities. 

This course will be led through the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP) at Griffith University. To find out more please visit: https://www.griffith.edu.au/griffith-health/australian-institute-suicide-research-prevention