Le Chéile: Skills for Intervention in peer-to-peer situations

Issued on 20 Mar 2026 by

University College Cork - OVPTL

Expires: 20 Mar 2031

Le Chéile is an online and in-person programme encouraging personal skill development for proactive student-to student assistance and intervention. Over four weeks, the programme covers: Mental Health and Wellbeing Active Listening and Suicide Prevention Bystander Intervention Drugs & Alcohol One of the central ideas behind Le Chéile is empowering and motivating an underutilised resource of the student body — the students themselves. This skills-based programme was developed in response to various problems students encounter and is tailored to the bystander model of safe, effective intervention. It engages students in a shared learning experience to proactively recognise and respond to peers who are struggling. Le Chéile also adds value to what is already offered in UCC by packaging trainings for students in an accessible way. The focus on acquiring skills to safely intervene, instead of just generating awareness and/or reducing stigma, further differentiates this programme from existing offerings.

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Issuer

University College Cork - OVPTL

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University College Cork (UCC) is a leading global university based in Cork City, Ireland. The Office of the Vice-President for Teaching & Learning at UCC promotes and supports excellence in teaching and to increase the quality of education at UCC.

Criteria

Learn techniques and skills to enable them to recognise and intervene in unhealthy situations.
Be able to analyse unhealthy patterns in the lives of their peers and themselves.
Learn how to develop healthy habits to combat these patterns.
Learn how to actively listen and communicate.
Develop their own innate abilities to be able to assist and intervene where necessary.
Learn which situations are safe for them to intervene, and which require a more serious intervention.
How to refer peers to further services that they might need.
Be awarded a certificate for the completion of the START online training program.