Lifeline Ballarat has a range of training options available to the local community.

ASIST

Attend an ASIST workshop and learn to apply a suicide intervention model. It will help you to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide. You will then learn to explore and connect with the person in ways that understand and clarify the risk, increase their immediate safety and link them with further help. 
When: Friday and Saturday March 1 and 2, 2019 from 8:45am-5:00pm.
More information and registration here.

DV-Alert Multicultural Communities

Lifeline’s DV-alert (Domestic and Family Violence Response Training) is a nationally recognised training program that enables frontline workers supporting multicultural communities in Australia to confidently:

• RECOGNISE signs of domestic and family violence (DFV)
• RESPOND with appropriate care
• REFER people experiencing or at risk of domestic and family violence to appropriate support services

When: Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 March 2019, 8:45am-5:00pm

Where: PHN Western Victoria, 101 Drummond Street North, Ballarat, Vic 3350

Register here: https://lifeline.jobreadyplus.com/terminal/online_book_course/2425

Mental Health First Aid

Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of common and disabling mental health problems; how to provide initial help; where and how to get professional help; what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective; and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.

When: Friday 22 March and 29 March 2019 from 9am-4pm. Participants attend both days.

Where: Peart Wing, 103 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat

Register: Call 5322 4996 or email 

For further information on any of our training sessions please contact the Lifeline Ballarat office on 5322 4996 or email