Overview

This presentation primarily focuses on the non-clinical role of suicide prevention in health care and recovery workers, as well as provides real time suicide prevention efforts and methods. This training will provide an overview of mental health, mental illness, and its relationship to suicide. It will address risk factors to identify. This training also covers the relationship between substance use and suicide. Participants will learn what suicide is and what suicide prevention looks like. Participants will learn crisis response protocol and how to navigate a discussion around suicide. This training will discuss the roles of a recovery coach and suicide prevention versus the roles of a clinician. This training will also discuss post-vention support.

Objectives of this training:

• Learn the definition of suicide and what it looks like in real time
• Understanding ambivalence
• Gain a strong understanding of mental health versus mental illness
• Learn to recognize and understand risk factors and protective factors
• Understanding substance use and mental health and how they relate to suicide prevention
• Skills for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them with appropriate resources
• Review of best practices about restricting access to lethal means and safe messaging
• Discussion of community resources
• Identifying and engaging in conversations with people at risk