Join us for this Live, 2-day virtual training

– 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