Program Purpose
This program is designed to train those who work with youth essential suicide warning signs recognition skills, understand youth suicide and its demographics, as well as how to immediately reduce the risk that a youth will attempt suicide in the near term. Participants learn how to intervene with safe and effective evidence-based strategies to help avert further suicidal behavior, as well as how to make an expert referral.
Program Description
Modularized in a rich mix of text, video, voice-over PowerPoint™ lectures, scenario-based practice sessions, and other state-of-the-art interactive and e-learning technologies, this program provides a dynamic approach to screening for suicide, risk detection, initial intervention, referral and follow up.
Participants who complete this course should be able to:
- Describe the common myths and facts surrounding suicide
- Identify unique verbal, behavioral, and situational suicide warning signs
- Screen youth and young adults at risk of suicide
- Screen pre-teen children for suicide risk
- Inquire about suicidal intent and desire
- Recognize at least three suicide warning signs
- Recognize at least three risk factors for suicide
- Recognize at least three protective factors against suicide
- Describe the role of bullying in youth suicide risk
- Demonstrate increased knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and intent to act to intervene with someone at risk of suicide
- Describe three safe and effective interventions to immediately reduce the risk of a youth suicide attempt
- Describe evidence-based treatments for suicide
- Know how to engage and assist a suicidal colleague or co-worker
- Describe suicide-specific evidence-based treatment
- Demonstrate (in multiple role-plays) the skills taught in this course
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