A free community suicide prevention session is coming to Whanganui and organisers are hoping to make it a regular thing.
The sessions will teach people how to recognise the key suicide warning signs in themselves or other people.
Neil Boyd and Kiritahi Firmin are facilitating the training sessions on a voluntary basis and Mr Boyd said between the pair both a Maori and Pakeha perspective would be catered for.
The first training session is being held at the end of the month and all going well it will become a monthly event.
Suicide took a toll on the community but was preventable, Mr Boyd said.