Preventative Training

NOW AVAILABLE

Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR)

• A one-to two-hour gatekeeper training that teaches lay and professional gatekeepers to recognize and respond positively to someone exhibiting suicide warning signs and behaviors.  QPR requires instruction by a qualified trainer.

OTHER TRAINING PROGRAMS COMING SOON

The Connect Suicide Prevention Program

• Connect Suicide Prevention/Invention Training increases the capacity of professionals and communities to prevent suicide across the lifespan.  Connect uses a public health approach and incorporates key elements of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.  Applying an unique holistic model and offering a community planning component using an unique socio-ecological model that examines suicide in the context of the individual, family, tribe, community and society.

The Connect Suicide Postvention Program

• A six hour program which helps to increase the capacity of a community/organization to respond effectively to a suicide in order to prevent additional suicides.  Connect Postvention training is a proactive planning tool for promoting healing and reducing risk after a suicide death.

Applied Suicide Invention Skills Training (ASIST)

• The ASIST workshop is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.  ASIST is a two-day (14 hours) intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize risk and learn how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.