Talking About ...Training

Providing training and information sessions to build individual, business and community awareness and understanding to maintain mental health, and the tools and skills to recognise and respond to those at risk or those impacted by suicide.

Our course selection is varied and unique to fit all needs and skill levels and are flexible and adaptable from 90-minute awareness sessions to full two-day programs.

With a previous business background, Wendy has worked in for 5 Fortune 500 companies in State and National managment roles. Wendy French has presented Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Suicide Bereavement training in various communities around Australia and has spoken and presented at various National and International conferences and forums.

Implementing and managing a 24/7 crisis and outreach service supporting people bereaved by suicide for 5 years, Wendy has subsequently worked with various communities around Australia experiencing significant suicide loss, assisting them to implement their own suicide response plans, providing community and in-service training including Crisis Intervention, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Bereavement, Individual/Organisational/Community Postvention, Suicide Prevention, Mental Health and Self Care. 

n 2017 Wendy was awarded Suicide Prevention Australia's National LiFE Award for Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Community Development and in 2103 was a nominee for the National Life Award for Excellence in Service Delivery. In 2016 Wendy was the recipient of the Tasmanian Government LiFE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Suicide Prevention.

As a proud ambassador for local charity Stigma No More Inc. (http://www.stigmanomore.org.au/ambassadors.html), Wendy is committed to making it easier to ask about and talk about mental health, mental illness, and suicide.

Wendy is also an accredited Master Instructor for Mental Health First Aid, available to urban, rural and remote areas to provide the Standard 12-hour Mental Health First Aid (Ed4) course, Mental Health for the Older Person, and the 4-hour Mental Health First Aid for the Suicidal Person course.