CORES Australia Facebook page provides a social media and marketing platform promoting and advertising suicide prevention training.
There are a number of broader benefits at an individual and community level. These include:
* generating social capital
* recognising suicide as a social health issue, helping reduce the stigma associated with suicide
* helps facilitate an open discussion of what most consider an uncomfortable topic
* encourages communities to become supportive, healthy and well connected
* strengthens local social networks
* normalises help seeking behaviour
* skills learned in the training are transferrable to other areas of life.