Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

 

Suicidal behaviors are associated with certain high-risk groups of young people; thus, selective intervention strategies should focus on risk reduction efforts.  Integral to reducing the rates of suicide is enhancing the skills and competencies of youth and increasing their level of resiliency.  Gatekeeper Training programs provide up-to-date information, help increase skills in assessing risky behavior, encourage help-seeking behavior and increase competencies in post-suicide interventions to prevent further suicides.  Project LIFE offers five suicide prevention gatekeeper trainings to youth and families, educators, military, clergy, mental health and health professionals and community members in Delaware.

 

ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is to help caregivers become willing, ready and be able to provide emergency first aid to persons at risk of suicidal behavior.  ASIST is a two-day workshop where participants will examine their attitudes about suicide, learn how to effectively recognize and review the risk of suicide.  All types of caregivers will benefit from participation in the two-day ASIST.

safeTALK is a 3-hour training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources.  As a safeTALK-trained suicide alert helper, you will be better able to:

•  Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide;
• Identify people who have thoughts of suicide;
  • Apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and Keep Safe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.

suicideTALK is a community-oriented program exploring issues in suicide prevention. 

SuicideTALK is a 1.5- to 2-hour exploration in suicide awareness. Organized around the question, “Should we talk about suicide?” it provides a structure in which people can safely explore some of the most challenging attitudinal issues about suicide, and encourages every member to find a part that they can play in preventing suicide.

SuicideTALK explores some of the most fundamental attitudinal issues about suicide and helps people to clarify their beliefs and examine the range of things they could do to help prevent suicide.

 The goal of SuicideTALK is to:

• Encourage life-protection, preservation and promotion activities
• Facilitate community awareness of suicide as a serious community health problem
  • Reduce stigma and taboo surrounding suicide, and
  • Increase personal commitment to and action in preventing suicide

QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) gatekeeper training program is a 1.5 to 2-hour training to help individuals, family and community members to help those who may be considering suicide.  QPR consists of three life-saving skills:

                        Question… a person about suicide

                        Persuade… the person to get help and,

                        Refer… the person to the appropriate resources. 

 QPR is not intended to be a form of counseling or treatment.  It is intended to offer hope through positive action and to teach those who are in a position to recognize the warning signs, clues and suicidal communications of people in trouble to ACT vigorously to prevent a possible tragedy

Campus Connect is a gatekeeper training program for college and university faculty, staff, and students. The experientially based training is designed to enhance participant’s knowledge, awareness, and skills concerning college student suicide. Specifically, Campus Connect aims to increase participant’s knowledge about suicide statistics, risk and protective factors, warning signs, and referral resources; to increase empathic listening skills, communication skills, and the ability to ask individuals if they are thinking about suicide; and to increase self-awareness concerning the potential emotional reactions gatekeepers may experience when interacting with students in crisis.

To see the 2011 Training Calendar, click here.