Skilled, knowledgeable adults can learn to recognize changes in student behavior and intervene to save a life. YSPP offers a number of trainings for educators, school personnel and others.
Please check our Training Calendar for upcoming schedule and to register.
Overview of current training options:
Suicide Prevention presentations for educators, parents and community groups
ASIST – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- 2-day workshop - 14 clock hours or CEUs
- Skills-based training; participants engage in interactive conversation and role-play practice
- Learn the phases of the suicide intervention model and the specific “person-at-risk” concerns and the “caregiver” tasks
- Variable fee structure
- 3-hour awareness training – 3 clock hours or CEUs
- Learn the invitations and intervention steps
- Understand why – even when we notice the invitations – we miss, dismiss or avoid getting involved
- Variable fee structure
- 3-hour training - 3 clock hours or CEUs
- Understand the different functions of self-harming behavior
- Learn to differentiate self-harm from suicidal behaviors
- Identify the characteristics of youth who self-harm and the social skills that provide healthy alternatives to coping with stress
- $125/hour for group of 30
- Safe from Bullies - Saving Lives is 1 to 3 hour training for school staff and teachers, community partners, and families.
- Safe and Accepted - 1 to 3 hour LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention & Intervention for staff and teachers
- You Are Not Alone - 45 min. to 1.5 hrs, facilitated by youth ages 15-24 for students.
Webinars- various topics
- 1-hour trainings that are provided on-line - no clock hours or CEUs – with limited interaction with the trainer
- Content varies, but has included self harm, bullying, suicide prevention and coping with stress and anxiety
- No class fee, but requires computer with speakers and pre-registration
