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Connect Suicide Prevention Project
CONNECT SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING OVERVIEW
NAMI NH’s Connect Suicide Prevention Project is designated as a national Best Practice Program in suicide prevention intervention and postvention. This designation follows review by national experts from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) who work under contract with the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop and maintain the registry.
Training is available in several different packages, described as follows. All trainings are aligned with comprehensive protocols based on national best practices.
Use the table below to navigate to the different training options.
For more information on training packages, please contact:
Ken Norton, Frameworks Project Director knorton@naminh.org
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I. GATEKEEPER PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION TRAINING:
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Agree that suicide is generally preventable and everyone has a role in preventing suicide.
3) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide.
4) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
5) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk and connect them to a qualified health professional.
Training Components:
• Overview of suicide as a public health issue
• Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
• Review of individual, family and community risk and protective factors
• Review of warning signs
• Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
• Skills for intervening with someone at risk
• Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
• Restricting access to lethal means
• Dealing with the media
• Self care skills
II. KEY SERVICE PROVIDER PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION TRAINING:
Training for key service providers includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how key service providers should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.
Training Components:
• Overview of suicide as a public health issue
• Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
• Review of risk and protective factors
• Review of warning signs
• Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
• Skills for intervening with someone at risk
• Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
• Restricting access to lethal means
• Dealing with the media
• Self care skills
• Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
Law Enforcement
Training for Law Enforcement includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Law Enforcement should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Recommendations for law enforcement in responding to an individual in a mental health crisis
- Understanding the role of the officer in a call for service related to suicidal behavior
- Scene assessment and containment
- Roles and responsibilities in relation to other first responders and service providers
- Interface between law enforcement and mental health services
- Legal issues, including custody, transport, and involuntary hospitalization
- Acknowledging and engaging the family
- Understanding the trauma of the individual
- Understanding the impact of stigma in reporting the incident
- Communication and confidentiality with mental health calls
- Suicide by cop
- Job stress and management
Training for Schools and Educators includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Schools and Educators should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Review of Best Practices for school crisis response in responding to suicidal behavior
- Identifying the roles of crisis team/crisis coordinator and administrators
- Emergency guidelines for first person(s) on the scene of a suicide attempt
- Promoting a safe school environment proactively and after an incident
- Understanding youth culture and communication, including electronic communication
- Recognizing risk factors that may emerge in a school environment
- Review of mental health evaluation options
- Communication and engagement with parents/guardians
- Confidentiality and reporting requirements
- Crisis procedures after an incident that occurs on or off school grounds
- Conducting a situational analysis
- Guidelines for timely notification and response to others as needed
- Developing transition plans for youth who return to school after an incident
- Interface with first responders and key service providers
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Providers
Training for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Providers includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Mental Health and Substance Abuse Providers should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Understanding the difference between deliberate self-harm and suicidal intent
- Guidelines for suicide risk assessment, history, and mental status exam
- Phone screening for emergency calls
- Decision trees in emergency response
- Confidentiality and communication with others
- Special considerations, such as minors and substance abuse
- Building a comprehensive safety plan
- Options for disposition: hospitalization vs. outpatient treatment
- Transition planning
- Interface with family and key service provider
Social Service Agencies
Training for Social Service Agencies includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Social Service Agencies should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Crisis coordination in a social service agency
- Understanding the difference between safety contracts and safety plans
- Conducting a situational analysis
- Interface with family and key service providers
- Confidentiality and reporting requirements
- Procedures for mental health evaluation
- Transition planning
Domestic Violence Agencies
Training for Domestic Violence Agencies includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Domestic Violence Agencies should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Factors influencing homicide/suicide with domestic violence
- Organizational approaches to crisis management
- Understanding the role of the crisis coordinator
- Decision tree regarding emergency contacts
- Understanding the difference between safety contracts and safety plans
- Conducting a situational analysis
- Interface with family and key service providers
- Confidentiality and reporting requirements
Faith Leaders/Faith Communities:
Training for Faith Leaders/Faith Communities includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Faith Leaders/Faith Communities should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Mental illness/suicide and spirituality
- Understanding the role of the pastoral counselor
- Faith leaders as educators
- Ethical obligations regarding privacy and confidentiality
- Interface with family and key service providers
- Engaging the supportive role of faith communities
Emergency Medical Services
Training for Emergency Medical Services includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Emergency Medical Services should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide event
- Scene assessment and safety
- Implementing the SAFER model
- Patient care and communication
- Understanding trauma and stigma
- Custody and transport
- Refusal of services
- Interface with family and key service providers
- Confidentiality and reporting requirements
Primary Care Providers
Training for Primary Care Providers includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Primary Care Providers should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide even
- Understanding the value of the PCP and patient relationship
- Interface with mental health and other service providers
- Screening for risk
- Dealing with imminent safety/risk issues
- Medications and antidepressants
Hospital/Emergency Departments
Training for Hospital/Emergency Departments includes all of the components of gatekeeper training above as well as training in the Frameworks best practice protocols (guidelines) for how Hospital/Emergency Departments should respond to a suicide event and how they integrate with role with other providers. These trainings include role playing/rehearsal for interventions, review of local policies and procedures and discussion on how to integrate key community service providers.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Understand their role as a gatekeeper.
2) Understand their specific service provider role in responding to suicide events and how they link together with other providers to provide an integrated response
3) Agree that suicide is generally preventable.
4) Increase knowledge of basic information about suicide and their role in an integrated community response
5) Increase knowledge of risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs relevant to suicide.
6) Increase ability to recognize individuals at risk, provide appropriate response and connect them to a qualified health professional.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of risk and protective factors
- Review of warning signs
- Influence of culture on risk and protective factors
- Skills for intervening with someone at risk
- Connecting the individual with appropriate resources
- Restricting access to lethal means
- Dealing with the media
- Self care skills
- Service Provider role in responding to a suicide even
- Safety and security issues
- Understand trauma and stigma
- Screening for risk
- Interface and referral with mental health and other service providers
- Patient refusal of services
- Confidentiality and reporting requirements
- Medications and antidepressants
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to key service providers who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.
Training Components:
• Overview of suicide as a public health issue
• Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
• Review of warning signs for suicide
• Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
• Coordinating postvention response in a community
• Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
• Cultural aspects of grief
• Memorial services and funerals
• Promoting responsible reporting by media
• Reducing risk of contagion
• Sensitivity in communication with survivors
• Self care skills
Funeral Directors
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Funeral Directors who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
- Interface with law enforcement
- Supporting the family
- Guidelines in writing the obituary
- Memorial services and remembrances
Medical Examiner/Coroner
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Medical Examiners/Coroners who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skill
- Death investigations
- Autopsies
- Statistics and trends
- Interface with family
- Data collection and role in suicide prevention
- Public disclosure of cause and manner of death
Law Enforcement
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Law Enforcement Personnel who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Providers
- Responding to the scene of a suicide
- Notification of next of kin
- Public disclosure of cause and manner of death
- Notification of other community members and agencies
- Responding to community needs
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Providers who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
Schools and Educators
- Confidentiality and securing patient/client records
- Contact with other patients/clients
- Contact with family
- Interface with key service providers
- Conducting a psychological autopsy
- Role in community response/providing grief counseling
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Schools and Educators who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
- Discovery of a suicide on school grounds
- Completed suicide off school grounds
- Contact with the family
- Disclosure of information to staff, students and school community
- Interface with key service providers and community agencies
- Memorial services and remembrances
- Self-care skills
Emergency Medical Services
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Emergency Medical Services Personnel who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skill
- Responding to the scene of a suicide
- Assisting the family in the aftermath of suicide
- Responding to community needs
Social Service Agencies
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Social Services Agencies who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
- Confidentiality and communication
- Discovery of a suicide on agency property
- Completed suicide off agency grounds
- Contact with staff
- Contact with other clients
- Contact with the family
- Interface with key service providers
Faith Leaders/Faith Communities
Since having known someone who has died by suicide is one of the highest risk factors for suicide, postvention becomes an important part of prevention efforts. Postvention training is offered to Faith Leaders/Faith Communities who will respond to and promote healing after a suicide event.Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Become familiar with nationally recognized Best Practices in responding to a suicide.
2) Identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Understand the risk of contagion and strategies for reducing this risk.
4) Learn concepts for promoting healing for survivors and communities.Training Components:
- Overview of suicide as a public health issue
- Promote help seeking and reduce stigmatizing attitudes
- Review of warning signs for suicide
- Responding to immediate family (known as “suicide survivors”)
- Coordinating postvention response in a community
- Grief and complicated bereavement due to a death by suicide
- Cultural aspects of grief
- Memorial services and funerals
- Promoting responsible reporting by media
- Reducing risk of contagion
- Sensitivity in communication with survivors
- Self care skills
- Role of faith leaders in reducing risk and promoting healing after a suicide
- Assisting the family in the aftermath of suicide
- Obituaries and death notices
- Memorial services and remembrances
- Safe messaging guidelines
- Faith communities as ongoing supports for the family
IV. TRAIN THE TRAINER TRAINING:
Frameworks utilizes a model of training trainers to promote sustainability of suicide prevention efforts. Key service providers are encouraged to become trainers so that they may in turn train their colleagues. The training includes all of the components of the gatekeeper and/or key service provider training and in addition focuses on the process of facilitating a training. Participants who demonstrate core competencies in the training model are certified as Level I (may co-lead Frameworks training with another Level I trainer) or Level II (needs more practice and may co-train, but not co-lead, with a Level I trainer). Once participants are certified as a Frameworks trainer, they can receive additional training, at additional cost, so they may serve as Postvention trainers.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
1) Show skills that demonstrate their ability to maintain fidelity to the Frameworks training model and protocols.
2) Be able to identify the role of key service providers and how they link together in a community response, based on Frameworks Best Practice protocols.
3) Commit to provide future training based on the materials provided.
4) Role model a sensitive and open approach to the subject of suicide.
Training Components:
- Pre-test conducted with prospective trainers to determine existing knowledge and attitudes toward suicide prevention
- Training includes all of the components of the gatekeeper training
- Participants are trained to serve as trainers in selected key service provider protocols
- Extensive time is spent strengthening and enhancing skills in order to effectively facilitate Frameworks training
- Includes practice and feedback sessions from Frameworks staff and other participants
- Participants complete daily assessment forms for staff to use to assess progress and competencies
- Frameworks staff provide conceptual overview of Project and introduce training manual
- Frameworks staff review, coach, and mentor participants throughout the three days
- Training process is emphasized as well as the content
- Frameworks staff role model importance of demeanor and sensitivity in suicide prevention
- Post-test and training assessments completed
- Based on observation and completion of assessments, Frameworks staff determine level of training certification
Frameworks also offers suicide prevention awareness trainings that are intended to increase participants knowledge and awareness of suicide as a public health issue and emphasize the importance seeking help.
• Overview of suicide as a public health issue
• Data specific to audience (eg. military, age-specific, cultural groups)
• Impact of suicide death on family/friends/community
• Importance of skill based suicide prevention efforts
• Importance of safe messaging in education about suicide prevention