Events & Trainings
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Citizens For Safe Schools offers a number of suicide prevention trainings with training opportunities being added soon. Current offerings include:
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer
the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor.
Citizens For Safe Schools offers QPR Gatekeeper Training to recognize a crisis and warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide. Gatekeepers can be anyone including: parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office supervisors, squad leaders, foremen, police officers, advisors, case workers, firefighters, and many other who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.
As a QPR-trained Gatekeeper you will learn to:
- Recognize the warning signs of suicide
- Know how to offer hope
- Know how to get help and save a life
Youth Suicide Assessment in Virtual Environments
Youth SAVE equips school- and community-based mental health professionals with the tools to virtually assess for – and intervene with – youth who have thoughts of suicide. The training includes 7 hours of synchronous learning and 2 hours of asynchronous learning, all delivered virtually.
Why Youth SAVE?
- Effective in both virtual and in-person environments, including hybrid schools
- Reach youth who feel more comfortable disclosing virtually rather than in-person
- Highly accessible option for those required to complete intervention-level training
Learning Objectives
- Identify needs, impact factors and resiliency factors
- Identify and analyze needs, protocols, and tools related to suicide intervention with youth in virtual and in-person environments
- Conduct suicide assessment and intervention with youth in virtual and in-person settings
- Identify and connect to local resources
- Apply an equity lens to suicide prevention and intervention with youth
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. The training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis.
Mental Health First Aiders are…
Teachers, first responders and veterans. They’re neighbors, parents and friends. They’re people in recovery, and those supporting a loved one They’re First Ladies and Mayors. Mental Health First Aiders are anyone who wants to make their community healthier, happier and safer for all.
Most of us would know how to help if we saw someone having a heart attack—we’d start CPR, or at the very least, call 9-1-1. But too few of us would know how to respond if we saw someone having a panic attack or if we were concerned that a friend or co-worker might be showing signs of alcoholism.
Mental Health First Aid takes the fear and hesitation out of starting conversations about mental health and substance use problems by improving understanding and providing an action plan that teaches people to safely and responsibly identify and address a potential mental illness or substance use disorder.
When more people are equipped with the tools they need to start a dialogue, more people can get the help they need. Mental Health First Aiders can even save lives.
To learn more about any of our trainings, please contact us at info@citizensforsafeschools.org or call (541) 882-3198