STORM: Skills Training On Risk Management

Linda Gask (Participant)
Appleby, Louis (Participant)
Morriss, Richard (Participant)
Gillian Green (Participant)

Impact: Health impacts, Economic impacts, Societal impacts

Narrative

In 2011 there were 6,045 suicides in people aged 15 and over in the UK. Training health and social care professionals is an essential component of suicide prevention strategies across the world. The University of Manchester (UoM) has developed and evaluated a method of training health and other frontline professionals in suicide risk assessment and management skills (STORM). The STORM project, now incorporated as a social enterprise with 2 permanent members of staff, has provided training to 670 training facilitators who have subsequently trained around 230,000 workers in the UK and overseas. In the first year of trading as a social enterprise, the majority of customers of Storm CIC were NHS Trusts with an annual turnover of £250k in 2012-13.

Impact date	2014
Category of impact	Health impacts, Economic impacts, Societal impacts
Impact level	Benefit

STORM: Skills Training On Risk Management

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Impacts

Risk Assessment and suicide prevention: Improving skills and confidence of frontline workers internationally through STORM training

Research output

The effects on suicide rates of an educational intervention for front-line health professionals with suicidal patients (the STORM Project)

Evaluating STORM skills training for managing people at risk of suicide

Dissemination and implementation of suicide prevention training in one Scottish region

Improvements to suicide prevention training for prison staff in England and Wales

Teaching front-line health and voluntary workers to assess and manage suicidal patients