Training your whole workforce will use
InPlace® Learning is SafeSide’s unique workforce education model that blends the cost effectiveness, convenience, fidelity, and repeatability of online training with group learning with ongoing access to faculty and an always accessible Community of Practice.
Three reinforcing components
Rather than a one-off event, InPlace® Learning builds over time. Each component serves a distinct purpose — and together they create lasting behaviour change across your workforce.
Video-Guided InPlace® Workshops (opens in new tab)
SafeSide Live Learning Sessions
Tools and Refreshers (opens in new tab)
As part of InPlace® Learning, SafeSide provides two types of live learning sessions with faculty and peers. Monthly Questions & Updates: share experiences, connect, and discuss suicide prevention challenges with SafeSide experts. In Focus: one-hour expert-led sessions that take a deeper look at complex or frequently raised themes, such as suicide in children.
Why InPlace® Learning works differently
Every approach to workforce education has strengths. InPlace® Learning is designed to bring them together — so you don't have to choose between fidelity, sustainability, and real human connection.
More than a decade of research
InPlace® Learning by SafeSide Prevention offers a scalable and sustainable approach to educating the suicide prevention workforce. This evidence-based approach leverages over a decade of research to provide teams with a map of best practices and evidence-based suicide prevention skills taught through interactive workshops with ongoing support.
The components of InPlace Learning work together to support learners in adopting a common language and approach to suicide prevention, achieving deep learning outcomes that support practice change.
Evidence Foundation of InPlace® Learning
Expert-led workshops are costly and hard to schedule. InPlace Learning addresses these challenges by integrating various educational components that enhance accessibility and efficacy:
An interactive curriculum developed by Dr Tony Pisani and colleagues enhances skills across diverse clinical roles.
Online modules for primary care physicians and nurses demonstrate significant improvements in knowledge and confidence.
Scenario-focused video training with group discussions designed by Conner and colleagues for broad application without expert facilitators.
This comprehensive approach to training has shown improvements in participant knowledge, confidence, and practice behaviours in suicide prevention.
References
- Burgess et al. (2020). Interprofessional Team-based Learning: Building Social Capital.
- Centeno Valles, P. J. (2020). Program evaluation of a suicide prevention training for primary care. University of Puerto Rico.
- Conner, K. R., et al. (2013). Evaluation of a suicide prevention training curriculum for substance abuse treatment providers.
- Cross et al. (2010). Predicting dissemination of a disaster mental health "train-the-trainer" program.
- Donovan et al. (2023). Evaluation of sustainable, blended learning workforce education for suicide prevention in youth services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! SafeSide's instructional design and video production team partners with your implementation team to shape the program for your setting and population.
Customisation can include custom introductory material that frames the program in your organisational context, clinical demonstrations tailored to your patient group or service type, discussion prompts aligned to the specific challenges your workforce faces, culturally sensitive and age-appropriate content for the populations you serve, and integration with your existing induction and refresher processes.
All customisations include instructional design, scripting, storyboarding, and video production. Learn more here.
InPlace® Learning works across a wide range of settings and workforce types. It has demonstrated strong outcomes among mental health professionals, youth services workers, and primary care teams — clinical and non-clinical alike.
It works well for organisations that have a distributed or shift-based workforce that is hard to gather in one place, need a sustainable approach that does not depend on external facilitators for every session, serve populations where suicide prevention is a regular part of staff practice, or want training that builds a shared language across teams, sites, or services.
If you are unsure whether it is the right fit, the SafeSide team can talk through your setting and population before you commit.
Yes — the initial workshop is the starting point, not the destination. InPlace® Learning is designed to build over time through three ongoing components that keep suicide prevention skills current and top of mind.
The first is the Video-Guided Workshop, a five to six-hour team session where a local host presses play, and video modules guide the group through clinical content, demonstrations, and discussion. No facilitation expertise is needed — any staff member can host.
From there, learning continues through monthly live sessions with SafeSide faculty. Monthly Questions and Updates give staff a space to share experiences, ask questions, and connect with peers across other organisations. In Focus sessions go deeper on complex or frequently raised themes — such as suicide risk in children and young people — in a focused one-hour format.
Throughout the year, short refresher modules keep skills current, introduce new content, and bring new staff up to the same standard without repeating the full workshop.
This ongoing structure is what separates InPlace® Learning from a single training event — and it is what the evidence shows is needed for lasting behaviour change.