Trainings The Trevor Project CARE Training The Trevor Project offers CARE Training: an interactive and intensive training that provides adults with an overview of suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) youth and the different environmental stressors that contribute to their heightened risk for suicide. Click here to visit The Trevor Project General Audience LGBTQ+ School Staff Service Providers Talk Saves Lives The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention offers this suicide prevention training available for general audiences with specific modules for seniors, LGBTQ people, and workplace settings. Click here to visit Talk Saves Lives Free General Audience People of Color LGBTQ+ Older Adults Employers Now Matters Now Now Matters Now, a skills-based site grounded in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, offers free training for those with suicidal thoughts, substance or mental health problems or their family members and friends. It also offers courses for healthcare, crisis, peer support service and school counseling providers. Click here to visit Now Matters Now Free General Audience VA S.A.V.E. Courses for Service Members and Veterans from Psych/Armor on understanding military culture. Click here to visit VA S.A.V.E. General Audience Mental Health First Aid A course that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. It focuses on reaching out to provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis. Click here to visit Mental Health First Aid General Audience QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) A one-hour training focused on “gatekeepers”—people in a position to recognize a crisis and do something about it. A gatekeeper can be a friend, coworker, teacher, boss, or parent. Click here to visit QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) School Staff Service Providers More Than Sad The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) offers More Than Sad, a teen mental health training for high school students, parents, and teachers. Click here to visit More Than Sad High School Students Parents School Staff Signs of Suicide Signs of Suicide is an evidence-based youth suicide prevention program for grades 6-12 that has demonstrated an improvement in students’ knowledge and adaptive attitudes about suicide risk and depression. It teaches students how to identify signs of depression and suicide in themselves and their peers, while providing materials that train school professionals, parents, and communities to recognize at-risk students and take appropriate action. Click here to visit Signs of Suicide 6th-12th Grade Students The SPI Elementary, middle, and high schools: The SPI is an innovative and coordinated youth suicide prevention referral system that links elementary, middle, and high school students with mental health services. It diverts at-risk students experiencing a mental health crisis from unneeded emergency room visits and inpatient services by connecting them to local mental health services (Kids’ Link RI) with follow-up support. For more information or to request training for your school on the SPI, contact Rhode Island Student Assistance Services Program Manager, Leigh A. Reposa, at Lreposa@risas.org or 401-952-7260. Click here to visit The Suicide Prevention Initiative (SPI) Click here to view the SPI Handbook School Staff Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island The Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island promotes a coordinated system of high quality, comprehensive, community-based, mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services. The SUMHLC offers training opportunities on a wide variety of topics for people working towards/renewing a mental health, substance abuse, social work, or nursing certification or license. Click here to visit Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island Clinicians Psycharmor PsychArmor provides educational content designed to support the unique needs associated with military culture including mental health and suicide prevention. Click here to visit PsychArmor Free Service Members Employers Clinicians
The Trevor Project CARE Training The Trevor Project offers CARE Training: an interactive and intensive training that provides adults with an overview of suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) youth and the different environmental stressors that contribute to their heightened risk for suicide. Click here to visit The Trevor Project General Audience LGBTQ+ School Staff Service Providers
Talk Saves Lives The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention offers this suicide prevention training available for general audiences with specific modules for seniors, LGBTQ people, and workplace settings. Click here to visit Talk Saves Lives Free General Audience People of Color LGBTQ+ Older Adults Employers
Now Matters Now Now Matters Now, a skills-based site grounded in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, offers free training for those with suicidal thoughts, substance or mental health problems or their family members and friends. It also offers courses for healthcare, crisis, peer support service and school counseling providers. Click here to visit Now Matters Now Free General Audience
VA S.A.V.E. Courses for Service Members and Veterans from Psych/Armor on understanding military culture. Click here to visit VA S.A.V.E. General Audience
Mental Health First Aid A course that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. It focuses on reaching out to provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis. Click here to visit Mental Health First Aid General Audience
QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) A one-hour training focused on “gatekeepers”—people in a position to recognize a crisis and do something about it. A gatekeeper can be a friend, coworker, teacher, boss, or parent. Click here to visit QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) School Staff Service Providers
More Than Sad The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) offers More Than Sad, a teen mental health training for high school students, parents, and teachers. Click here to visit More Than Sad High School Students Parents School Staff
Signs of Suicide Signs of Suicide is an evidence-based youth suicide prevention program for grades 6-12 that has demonstrated an improvement in students’ knowledge and adaptive attitudes about suicide risk and depression. It teaches students how to identify signs of depression and suicide in themselves and their peers, while providing materials that train school professionals, parents, and communities to recognize at-risk students and take appropriate action. Click here to visit Signs of Suicide 6th-12th Grade Students
The SPI Elementary, middle, and high schools: The SPI is an innovative and coordinated youth suicide prevention referral system that links elementary, middle, and high school students with mental health services. It diverts at-risk students experiencing a mental health crisis from unneeded emergency room visits and inpatient services by connecting them to local mental health services (Kids’ Link RI) with follow-up support. For more information or to request training for your school on the SPI, contact Rhode Island Student Assistance Services Program Manager, Leigh A. Reposa, at Lreposa@risas.org or 401-952-7260. Click here to visit The Suicide Prevention Initiative (SPI) Click here to view the SPI Handbook School Staff
Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island The Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island promotes a coordinated system of high quality, comprehensive, community-based, mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services. The SUMHLC offers training opportunities on a wide variety of topics for people working towards/renewing a mental health, substance abuse, social work, or nursing certification or license. Click here to visit Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island Clinicians
Psycharmor PsychArmor provides educational content designed to support the unique needs associated with military culture including mental health and suicide prevention. Click here to visit PsychArmor Free Service Members Employers Clinicians
