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If you have been called on to develop or expand a suicide prevention program in a state or community, and you want it to have maximum impact, then this course may be for you. A Strategic Planning Approach to Suicide Prevention can help you identify activities that will be effective in addressing the problem of suicide and help you prioritize your efforts. To bring the approach to life, this training presents a case study that illustrates how a community task force applies the strategic planning process to their work.

This course teaches you to:

• Describe the suicide problem and its context.
• Choose long-term goals for a suicide prevention program.
• Identify key risk and protective factors to focus on.
• Select or develop interventions to decrease or increase these risk and protective factors.
• Plan an evaluation.
• Implement the interventions and the evaluation.
• Take further action based on the evaluation.

This course is open to anyone and can be completed in approximately two or three hours. You do not have to complete the course in one session. You can exit the course at any time and return later to the place where you left off. 

SPRC is not a crisis center. If you are thinking of hurting yourself, or if you are concerned that someone you know may be suicidal, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by phone 1-800-273-TALKCall: 1-800-273-TALK (8255

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Effectively preventing suicide requires an understanding of who is attempting and dying by suicide, where the problem is most severe, and under what circumstances attempts and suicide deaths occur. But how do you find the data you need to answer these questions and others? Locating and Understanding Data for Suicide Prevention presents a variety of data sources that are useful for finding information about suicide deaths, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation. This course also explains key concepts that will help you better understand the data you find.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define and understand the difference between suicide deaths, suicide attempts, suicide ideation, and risk and protective factors for suicide.
• Explain key terms that are essential to accurately interpreting data and making meaningful comparisons; this includes counts, rates, and trends. 
• Identify some commonly used and readily accessible online national data sources, and the type of data that is available from each source.
• Identify some alternative data sources that may be available in states and communities, the type of data available from these sources, and considerations when approaching organizations and agencies for these data.
• Think critically about the strengths and limitations of a given data source. 
• This course is open to anyone and can be completed in approximately two hours. You do not have to complete the course in one session. You can exit the course at any time and return later to the place where you left off. 

SPRC is not a crisis center. If you are thinking of hurting yourself, or if you are concerned that someone you know may be suicidal, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by phone 1-800-273-TALKCall: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

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Participants in this course will learn the youth suicide prevalence nationally and the implications to schools. They will also be able to familiarize themselves with multi-tiered systems of positive behavior and social emotional learning. In addition, how the multi-tiered systems support the prevention of suicide. Finally, the course will discuss ways to build capacity and sustainability of these services in K-12 schools.

This Suicide Prevention Series is a collaboration between the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both centers are funded by SAMHSA.

1.0 Hour Continuing Education Available

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Participants in this course will learn the youth suicide prevalence nationally and the implications to schools. They will also be able to familiarize themselves with multi-tiered systems of positive behavior and social emotional learning. In addition, how the multi-tiered systems support the prevention of suicide. Finally, the course will discuss ways to build capacity and sustainability of these services in K-12 schools.

This Suicide Prevention Series is a collaboration between the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both centers are funded by SAMHSA.

1.0 Hour Continuing Education Available

Certificate of Completion

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This course focuses on the ways in which responding to mental health crisis and risk of suicide in a school setting presents unique challenges and considerations for mental health practitioners, educators, and parents. Participants will learn recommended best practices for assessing children and adolescents for suicide and initiating appropriate responses to youth experiencing thoughts of suicide in a K-12 school setting. Special attention is given to common screening and assessment tools used in school settings, best practices for utilizing an interdisciplinary team approach to respond to youth experiencing thoughts of suicide in a school setting, and ways to identify risk and protective factors for youth and adolescents at risk of suicide.

This Suicide Prevention Series is a collaboration between the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both centers are funded by SAMHSA.

1.0 Hour Continuing Education Available

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Higher education settings are increasingly tasked with responding to the mental health needs of students and transition age youth on campuses. This course will focus on increasing faculty and staff understanding of suicidality and best practices for supporting students and transition age youth experiencing thoughts of suicide. Particular attention will be given to identifying warning signs for suicidality, best practices for screening and referring individuals to campus based care and best practices for suicide interventions for college and transition age youth.

This Suicide Prevention Series is a collaboration between the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both centers are funded by SAMHSA.

1.0 Hour Continuing Education Available

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Suicide leads to over 47,000 preventable deaths annually in the U.S. alone. In addition, suicide has increased by 33% in the U.S. in the last two decades. While environment plays a critical role, suicide has a strong genetic component. With the unique resources available to the Utah Suicide Research Program, we have the opportunity to make significant contributions to the understanding of this genetic aspect of suicide risk, with the ultimate goal of development of personalized interventions. This course will give an update on research progress and how results may impact the future of prevention and treatment.

This Suicide Prevention Series is a collaboration between the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both centers are funded by SAMHSA.

1.0 Hour Continuing Education Available

Certificate of Completion

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This 30-minute course is intended to help community providers identify their role in helping patients transition away from a dependence on opioids and to encourage them to study more about pain management and suicide prevention. 

The objectives of the course are to teach the community providers how to:

• Define the meaning of the SAVE acronym
• Identify the warning signs of suicide
• Explain how to conduct a suicide assessment
• Describe how to discuss lethal means
• Refer patients at imminent risk of suicide, or in need of further assessment, to live crisis resources.

Funding for this course was made possible by grant no. 1H79TI080816-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Certificate of Completion Available

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