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STORM Skills Training CIC
Storm Skills Training Community Interest Company (CIC) exists to benefit the self-harm and suicide prevention community. We are a not-for-profit, social enterprise, that provides high-quality, effective, self-harm and suicide prevention training supported by a wealth of research, experience, and expertise. We have been delivering suicide prevention training for over 20 years, evolving our program based on the latest research, evidence, best practice, and lived experience.
Our work in suicide prevention
Research supports the effectiveness of the training across a range of audiences including mental health, health and social care, volunteer workers, schools and higher education, and prisons.
Studies have shown that our training package is effective in:
– Developing and enhancing skills
– Improving attitudes
– Increasing confidence in helping someone who is in distress
Our unique focus on skills, research, and quality:
We take what we learn from research, best practice, and lived experience to create our training. We then work with teams and individuals to enhance skills to use this effectively in a conversation with someone in distress using a person-centred approach – including engagement, holistic assessment, formulation, and personalised safety planning.
Our evidence-based training methodologies give frontline team members the opportunity to practice, reflect, and give and receive feedback on skills in a safe and supportive learning environment. We use the highest standard of skills development, which includes filmed skills practice for the more advanced levels of our courses.
Our training is dynamic and challenging because conversations about self-harm and suicide prevention can be dynamic and challenging.
Our ethical social business model with real social impact:
We are proud to be an organisation that is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We believe that our differences make us stronger.
We are not for profit and we believe strongly that no one should profit from the distress of others. This is really important, it’s why we became a social enterprise, CIC in the first place.
The success of our training benefits the community and we are motivated to make sure that every penny generated helps us toward achieving our vision and mission.
Our vision is: Fewer lives lost to suicide and self-harm
Our mission is: To deliver high-quality, evidence-based training which improves knowledge, skills, and confidence, creating effective self-harm and suicide prevention.
The direct impact of our training on the frontline:
Enhancing skills and confidence of teams and promoting person-centred collaborative conversations with those in distress and their support network
We share our training success:
We invest in projects and activities which help to further our mission to reduce the incidence and impact of self-harm and suicide.
Our current priorities
– Enhance our training package
– Expand the number of people trained
– Improve our reach and support to those who work to, or who could help to, prevent self-harm and suicide
– Support teams in meeting the NICE guidance (NG225) on the assessment and management of self-harm which was updated in 2022. – Moving towards individualised risk management, with a person-centred, holistic assessment and management for self-harm and suicide prevention.
– Making sure that every penny generated helps us toward achieving our vision of having more effective conversations that help reduce distress, and losing fewer lives to self-harm and suicide.
Our current challenges
Financial and capacity pressures on service providers and ourselves, and stigma surrounding suicide and self-harm.