Welcome to A World Where LivingWorks, stories of science and survival. Bringing together our heads and our hearts, to build a suicide safer world. Suicide can be prevented—and everyone has a role to play. Life-saving skills can be learned by individuals, businesses, and communities everywhere. Together, we can build a safer, more hopeful world. Join us as we hear from technical experts and people with personal expertise when it comes suicide and its prevention.
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
The fifth episode in our podcast A World Where LivingWorks is “First on the Scene”. This episode is all about living well in the first responder and emergency services workforces.
Host Kim Borrowdale talks with Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent and LivingWorks trainer Paul Bertrand. The FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization in the United States with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities. The FBI works around the globe and employs close to 36,000 people, including special agents and support professionals such as intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and information technology specialists.
Also joining the conversation from the United Kingdom is Andy Chapman. Andy is a former police officer with many years of his three-decade policing career spent as a hostage negotiator where he often negotiated at length with people planning to take their own lives. Andy is a safeTALK trainer and now the Suicide Prevention Lead for the City of York.
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