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The Alternatives to Suicide approach is about openly exploring the meaning behind thoughts and feelings of suicide, as well as what might be worth living for. Click here to read more about the Alt2Su framework that is explored in this training. 

Best Suited for this Audience:

Healthcare or mental healthcare providers; public health; social workers; peer supporters; clergy; people with lived experience; people who are interested in supporting their friends and family

Builds These Skills:

Exploring the myths around suicide; engage in paradigm shifts driven by evidence and root causes of suicide; apply the four elements of the Alternatives to Suicide approach (Validation-Curiosity-Vulnerability-Community); identify at least 3 different ways to create policy or advocate for systems-level change to better address suicidal crisis 

Format:

In-person or online

Length of Time:

2 days (8 hours each) 

Cost:

Exact cost depends on trainers' time and other travel, lodging, and/or coordination needs. Online trainings tend to be cheaper. Reach out to Wildflower Alliance for a more exact quote

How to Request a Training:

https://wildfloweralliance.org/request/

The Alternatives to Suicide approach is about openly exploring the meaning behind thoughts and feelings of suicide, as well as what might be worth living for. Click here to read more about the Alt2Su approach that this training centers on. 

Best Suited for this Audience:

Individuals who have their own lived experience with suicidal thoughts, feelings, and/or actions and are interested in becoming a peer support group facilitator.

Builds These Skills:

Peer support skills using the four elements of the Alternatives to Suicide approach (Validation-Curiosity-Vulnerability-Community); understanding of the research that supports the development of Alternatives to Suicide groups; introducing and facilitating Alt2Su groups; strategies to advertise, fund, and gain community buy-in for Alt2Su groups 

Format:

In-person or online

Length of Time:

3 days (8 hours each) 

Cost:

Exact cost depends on trainers' time and other travel, lodging, and/or coordination needs. Online trainings tend to be cheaper. Reach out to Wildflower Alliance for a more exact quote

How to Request a Training:

https://wildfloweralliance.org/request/

 

Best Suited for this Audience:

Designed to create dialogue around being an adult ally for LGBTQ youth.

Builds These Skills:

Learn various terminology related to LGBTQ communities, explain the unique challenges facing LGBTQ people, identify ways to create safer and more supportive environments for LGBTQ people and discuss the services offered by The Trevor Project.

Format:

Online or in-person offered

Length of Time:

Approximately 2 hours

Cost:

$1,500 but can be rather flexible for non-profits, government agencies, and schools.

How to Request a Training:

education@thetrevorproject.org

Best Suited for this Audience: 

For anyone 16 years or older, participants 16-17 years old will require parental consent

Builds These Skills: 

This workshop teaches the Pathways to Assisting Life Model and how to navigate the conversation about suicide from asking the question, to providing direct questions and helping the person with thoughts find their connection to life.

Format: 

In-person

Length of Time: 

2 consecutive days 

Cost: 

$250 with a $50 deposit required at registration

How to Request a Training: 

https://legacy.livingworks.net/training-and-trainers/find-a-training-workshop/?sort=date&type=20

 

 

Best Suited For This Audience:  
Healthcare professionals (non-clinical staff working in inpatient care settings)

Builds These Skills:
AMSR-Direct Care Training is designed to familiarize you with the AMSR approach and the risk formulation, giving you the understanding and skills to assist in the treatment of those at risk for suicide. You'll learn how you can help identify and support individuals with suicide risk by using the suicide risk identification, assessment, and management competencies taught in the AMSR-Direct Care Inpatient training. You'll receive an AMSR manual, so you can take with you the information, background, and tips that are covered in the session.

Format: 
This workshop is taught live in person by an authorized AMSR trainer. The workshop consists of 3.5 hours of content that includes discussion, role-playing, and video segments.

Length of Time: 
Half-day

Cost: 
$50

How To Request a Training:

Email: amsr@edc.org

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Best Suited for this Audience:

Health and behavioral healthcare professionals working in inpatient care settings

Builds These Skills:

This training is designed to improve skills for recognition, assessment, and management of suicide risk. It helps you learn about effective suicide-specific interventions and ways to develop collaborative treatment and safety plans for individuals at risk of suicide. You will be provided with an AMSR manual, so you can take with you the information, background, and tips that are covered in the training session.

Format:

Online, 6.5 hours of content that includes discussion, role-playing, and video segments

Length of Time:

Full day

Cost:

$145 for online training with an extra $25 manual shipping cost

How to Request a Training:

https://psychwire.com/zsi/zsi-amsr-inpatients

Best suited for this audience:

Health and behavioral healthcare professionals working in outpatient care settings

Builds these skills: 

This training is designed to improve skills for recognition, assessment, and management of suicide risk. It helps you learn about effective suicide-specific interventions and ways to develop collaborative treatment and safety plans for individuals at risk of suicide. You will be provided with an AMSR manual, so you can take with you the information, background, and tips that are covered in the training session.

Format:

Online, 6.5 hours of content that includes discussion, role-playing, and video segments

Length of Time:

Full day

Cost:

$145 for online training with an extra $25 manual shipping cost

How to Request a training:

https://solutions.edc.org/solutions/zero-suicide-institute/events?field_event_type_target_id%5B44%5D=44&field_initiative_target_id%5B52%5D=52

Best Suited for this Audience:

Health and behavioral healthcare professionals working in substance use disorder treatment settings

Builds These Skills:

This training is designed to improve skills for recognition, assessment, and management of suicide risk. It helps you learn about effective suicide-specific interventions and ways to develop collaborative treatment and safety plans for individuals at risk of suicide.

Format:

Online, 6.5 hours of content that includes discussion, role-playing, and video segments

Length of Time:

Full day

Cost:

$145 for online training with an extra $25 manual shipping cost

How to Request a Training:

https://solutions.edc.org/solutions/zero-suicide-institute/events?field_event_type_target_id%5B44%5D=44&field_initiative_target_id%5B52%5D=52

Best Suited for this Audience:

K-12 school staff and educators, healthcare professionals, higher education staff, adults working in the foster care system, faith baith leaders and more.

Builds These Skills:

Describe how to respond to a youth who is at risk for suicide and connect them to the proper resources; explain how to create supportive environments for all youth that promote resiliency and decrease the risk for suicide; describe the services offered by The Trevor Project and how youth can access them.

Format:

Online or in-person offered

Length of Time:

Approximately 2 hours

Cost:

$1,500 but can be rather flexible for non-profits, government agencies, and schools.

How to Request a Training:

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/care-training/, also: education@thetrevorproject.org

Best Suited for this Audience:

Mental health providers, social workers, school counselors and administrators, and emergency or crisis responders

Builds These Skills:

This training is a framework for suicide assessment and treatment for patients in a wide range of treatment settings. It’s a collaborative intervention between clinician and patient, that helps clinicians treat the two drivers of the patient’s suicidal ideations. It is a proven clinical intervention to treat suicidal drivers to help reduce suicidal ideals, overall symptoms, depression, and hopelessness.

Format:

3-hour video course ($99), CAMS book ($35-40) based on the latest research and clinical trials for suicide prevention and treatment, online role-play training ($200) provides an opportunity to practice using the CAMS framework with other individuals, and CAMS consultation calls ($15) 4-1 hour Zoom calls to get expert guidance from clinicians on complex cases

Length of Time:

10 hours of coursework and 4 hours of coaching calls

Cost:

Total $394

How to Request a Training: 

https://cams-care.com/about-us/contact-us/

Best Suited for this Audience:

This training is for professionals and community members and staff can customize trainings to meet the needs of each community or organization and incorporate local cultural issues.

Builds These Skills:

Connect uses a public health, holistic, approach to prevent suicide across the lifespan, offering a community planning component, and incorporates elements of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. This training can include prevention/intervention, postvention, and survivor voices.

Format:

Online and hybrid trainings are available

Length of Time:

6 hours

Cost:

NA

How to Request a Training:

https://theconnectprogram.org/about-us/contact-us/

Best Suited for this Audience:

Healthcare and Social Service providers.

Builds These Skills:

CALM is designed to reduce access to the methods people use to kill themselves. It covers who needs lethal means counseling and how to work with people at risk for suicide—and their families—to reduce access.

Format:

Can be delivered virtually or in person.

Length of Time:

2 days (9am-2pm)

Cost:

Free

How to Request a Training:

https://zerosuicidetraining.edc.org/enrol/index.php?id=20

Best Suited for this Audience:

This training is mainly for elementary, middle, and high schools but they also have programs available for higher education institutions, Veterans Affairs facilities, and businesses.

Builds These Skills:

This program is a school-based peer support team with students selecting peers they feel are trustworthy to join the Hope Squad. Those squad members are trained to identify warning signs, provide friendship to struggling students, and seek help from adults when appropriate. Students are not trained to be counselors but provide a trusted peer to listen to at-risk students and inform an adult if they need help.

Format: 

NA

Length of Time:

NA

Cost:

NA

How to Request a Training:

https://hopesquad.com/get-started/

Best Suited for this Audience:

Those who do or have struggled with mental health and substances, friends and family, other supporters or those wanting to learn DBT Skills are welcome to take the course.

Builds These Skills:

This class offers simple ways to manage loneliness, stress, relationships and mental health and substance-use struggles (including suicidal thoughts). Micro-interventions (including coping tools called DBT Skills) are small steps you can do in 5 minutes or less to improve your health or support others.

Format:

Online, self-paced

Length of Time:

2 hours

Cost:

Free

How to Request a Training:

https://nowmattersnow.org/

Best Suited for this Audience:

High school students, parents, teachers, and school personnel

Builds These Skills:

This program consists of two videos “Preventing Teen Suicide”, which is intended for teachers and school personnel on the warning signs of suicide and steps that can be taken to help students, and “Teen Depression, which is intended for teens, parents, and school personnel teaching about depression and encourages those that are suffering to seek help.

Format:

Online or in-person

Length of Time:

75-120 minutes

Cost:

$59.95

How to Request a Training:

https://afsp.org/more-than-sad/

Best Suited for this Audience:

General audience

Builds These Skills:

The three main components of this gatekeeper training are recognizing the warning signs of suicide, learning how to offer help, and learning how to refer someone to the appropriate help.

Format:

In-person or online

Length of Time:

1 hour

Cost:

Depends on the trainer

How to Request a Training:

See statewide trainer directory: https://www.preventsuicidewi.org/qpr-gatekeeper-training

Best Suited for this Audience:

For anyone 15 years or older, or 13-14-year-olds, with parental or caregiver guidance

Builds These Skills:

Learn to read the signs of suicide, begin the conversation, and connect someone to further help and support through a four-step model.

Format:

Online, self-paced

Length of Time:

90 minutes

Cost:

$39.95 per enrollment

How to Request a Training:

start@livingworks.net

Best Suited for this Audience:

Students, teachers, school staff

Builds These Skills:

This training provides information on data of youth suicide in Wisconsin, suicide risk factors, warning signs, methods for dealing with suicidal students. One method taught is ACT which stands for Acknowledge the signs of suicide, Care and Concern for the individual, and Tell someone who can provide the appropriate intervention for the individual.

Format:

Online

Length of Time:

20 minutes

Cost:

Free

How to Request a Training:

https://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/mental-health/youth-suicide-prevention/training

Best Suited for this Audience:

Elementary, Middle, or High school personnel

Builds These Skills:

Sources of Strength utilizes an upstream approach using student peer leaders to help enhance protective factors associated with reducing suicide across a school population. Along with preventing suicide this training also aims to prevent violence, bullying, and substance misuse.

Format:

Primarily in-person but online options are available for elementary schools (K4-6th grade). Trainers are flexible to fit each individual school's needs

Length of Time:

2 full days, 16 hours

Cost: 

Pricing varies starting at $750 (https://sourcesofstrength.org/pricing/), trainers will work with schools on pricing

How to Request a Training: 

Katrina Johnson: kjohnsontherapyinfo@gmail.com and Jada Walker: jada@sourcesofstrength.org

 

Best Suited for this Audience:

General public such as businesses, primary care providers, law enforcement, social service workers, healthcare workers, and parents

Builds These Skills:

This training focuses on the history of Sources of Strength, the model of the program, and highlights some examples of how Sources of Strength has been successfully implemented.

Format:

In person

Length of Time:

90-120 minutes

Cost:

Regional trainers can help assist with cost 

How to Request a Training:

Katrina Johnson: kjohnsontherapyinfo@gmail.com and Jada Walker: jada@sourcesofstrength.org

 

When Conversation Turns to Suicide is a 16-hour training based in the Alternatives to Suicide approach, and intended as an alternative to ASIST, QPR, and similar approaches that remain rooted in conventional medicalized systems. 

Best Suited for this Audience:

Clinical providers, family members, peer supports, first responders, and anyone else who wants to learn how to offer support to someone who is suicidal.

Builds These Skills:

Myths around suicide; VCVC (Validation-Curiosity-Vulnerability-Community) framework for being in conversation with someone who is struggling; links between trauma (including systemic oppression) and suicide; strategies for advocating for systems change 

Format:

In-person or online

Length of Time:

16 hours (4 days, 4 hours each)

Cost:

Exact cost depends on trainers' time and other travel, lodging, and/or coordination needs. Online trainings tend to be cheaper. Reach out to Wildflower Alliance for a more exact quote

How to Request a Training:

https://wildfloweralliance.org/request/

Best Suited for this Audience:

Healthcare and Behavioral Healthcare Systems

Builds These Skills:

Embedding evidence-based elements as a bundle of interventions focused on reducing suicide; Collecting data to measure both outcomes as well as fidelity to use of these interventions; Conducting continuous quality improvement to educate staff and improve performance weaknesses; Normalizing suicide prevention and care practices for staff, people at risk, and their families as the expected standard of care.

Format:

Online

Length of Time:

2 days (9am-2pm both days)

Cost:

$250 per team (Includes CEH's)

How to Request a Training:

https://www.preventsuicidewi.org/zero-suicide

Best Suited for This Audience: 

Living Works safeTALK is a four-hour face-to-face workshop featuring powerful presentations, audiovisuals, and skills practice. This course discusses why people miss, dismiss, and avoid the conversation about suicide. safeTALK teaches Tell – Ask – Listen and Keep Safe for now. 

Builds These Skills:

At a Living Works safeTALK workshop, you'll learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, engaging someone, and connecting them to an intervention resource for further support.

Format:

In-person, A skilled, supportive trainer will guide you through the course, and a community resource will be on hand to support your safety and comfort.

Length of Time:

4 hours

Cost: 

NA

How to Request a Training: 

NA