Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
Training for Trainers

Overview
Join us for this Live, 2-day virtual training
- OCTOBER 18-19TH, 2023
— Next training FEB. 15th-16th, 2024 -
- 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM (PST)
- 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (MST)
- 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM (CST)
- 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM (EST)
- Virtual – Live Trainers, Interactive on Zoom
- Cost:
- Adults: $445
- Youth/Students/60+/Military: $345
- Re-Certify: $175
- Registration closes on Sept. 29th, 2023 5pm MT
Workshop Topics
– Step-by-step implementation strategies
– How to identify and organize trainings and training needs
– How to talk to schools and overcome fears and objections
– Liability – Policies and Procedures for schools
– How to find funding to start/sustain community programs
– Postvention: the need for active prevention after a suicide
- ADULT: the Be A Link!(r) Suicide Prevention Training
- How to give trainings
- Review of who and how people can be trained
- Review of Objectives for each training
- Liability – Policies and Procedures for schools
- How to talk to your own children about suicide
- Postvention- the need for active prevention after a suicide/attempt
- YOUTH/TEENS: the Ask 4 Help!(r) Suicide Awareness Training
- Empowers Teens how to Ask4Help for themselves and others
- To Be A Link for suicide prevention and how to
- Be A Leader in Community efforts
- Yellow Ribbon is the first program to teach youth/teens directly
- This model of directly empowering and including the youth and teens has contributed
to the strength, sustainability and exponential growth of this program for 25+ years - A peer-model training that teaches basic lifesaving skills using appropriate resources,
starting with themselves, that does not leave anyone out nor single anyone out.
- CHILDREN: the Ask 4 Help!(r) Suicide Awareness Training
- Special Be A Link! Gatekeeper training for Adults working with children (K-5)
- Special Ask 4 Help! training for Children with a primary prevention
- Approach that involves ‘upstream’ with teaching life skills to reach to children (k-5)
- So that by the time the children reach adolescence, help seeking behavior is ingrained
- Emphasize help-seeking behavior
- Teach warning signs, risk and protective factors
- Teach about, and identify resources
- Include appropriate support personnel (i.e. counselors, specialists, faith leaders, community leaders, etc.)
- Don’t present descriptions of methods of suicide
- Don’t glorify or romanticize suicide

Join Us For This Live, Two-Day Virtual Workshop
OCTOBER 18th-19th, 2023

Register By Mail
Please Send To:
Mail: Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prev. Prog.,PO Box 644, Westminster, CO 80036
Fax: 303-426-4496
Email: ask4help@yellowribbon.org