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Become a Certified Yellow Ribbon Trainer

Youth and adults are encouraged to become a Certified Yellow Ribbon Trainer. All Yellow Ribbon trainers have participated in the 2-day Yellow Ribbon "Train the Trainer" Program. Trainers are required to renew & re-certify every 2-years.  A Trainer is certified to use the Yellow Ribbon Ask-4-Help!® & Be-A-Link!® trainings within their community, they are not certified to train other trainers.  The Fee for Trainers/Re-certification is the 2-Day Training Fee.  Certified Trainers will be listed on the Yellow Ribbon International Website. 


  • Virtual – Live Trainers, Interactive on Zoom
  • Cost:
    • Adults: $435 
    • Youth/Students/60+/Military: $335
    • Re-Certify: $175
    • Scholarships may be available. Contact us at ask4help@yellowribbon.org


Workshop Topics:

Community Readiness Action Plans

  • 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 

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

  • ADULT: the Be A Link!® 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!® 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!® 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

Yellow Ribbon Standards for Safe and Effective Messaging for Training Programs

  • 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


*All Chapters & Certified Trainers must be approved by LFL/YRI

Upcoming trainings

February 13 & 14, 2025

Register Here

 94% of the participants agreed that the training provided them with the tools and resources needed to function as a LINK for suicide prevention and were given tools to help build a community-wide suicide prevention initiative. 96% agreed that they would recommend training to others.

 I highly recommend this training to all community, mental health and school personnel. 


- L. M. Kansas

I am so happy to have received this training. I’ve wanted to do something about suicide in our community and was afraid to do the wrong thing. Thanks again! 


- D.B. in Colorado

Yellow Ribbon Training Registration Forms

Yellow Ribbon Training Registration Form- February 2025 & October 2025 (pdf)

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Other Trainings available

Youth & Teen Training

Children & Elementary Training

Adult Gatekeeper Training

It is not uncommon for teens to think about suicide.  Every year 1 in 5 teens seriously considers suicide and youth will most often seek help from their peers.  It is imperative that youth are provided the tools to recognize other youth who may be at risk for suicide and the knowledge of how to respond if they are concerned.  Studies have shown that youth peer training is an effective practice for education for youth.  Designated a National Best Practice program, Yellow Ribbon utilizes a unique community-based model that increases the competence and confidence of youth to recognize and respond to suicidal individuals.  Modified to be age and culturally appropriate, the curriculum follows the recognized safe messaging prevention practices.


  • Increased knowledge of warning signs, risk and protective factors of suicide
  • Increased understanding of help-seeking behavior; how to ask for help for themselves and others
  • Increased knowledge of resources and crisis contact (locally and nationally) using the simple lifeskill and tool – the Ask 4 Help!® Wallet card – with the step-by-step guide to ask for help and call or text 988
  • How to respond to a friend, a cry for help.
  • Increased empowerment of their own abilities by knowing the development of the Program and that youth can know how to, and do, make a difference.

Adult Gatekeeper Training

Children & Elementary Training

Adult Gatekeeper Training

Anyone in an organization can potentially be trained in what is known as “suicide prevention gatekeeper training.” (National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention 2012). Suicide Prevention Trainings are a key step in preparation and readiness for individuals and communities in both prevention and postvention.


Yellow Ribbon’s Be A Link!® Community Gatekeeper Training is a community friendly, peer-based, non-clinical training.  It teaches simple, effective tools of help between those in need and help resources.  It emphasizes the important role parents, school personnel and other trusted adults can play in helping at-risk young people.  This core model is appropriate for any adults, professional and non-professional.  Yellow Ribbon has feedback that shows that trusted adults such as school bus drivers, coaches, custodians and scout leaders have been instrumental in helping save lives after receiving the training.


  • Increased knowledge of Warning Signs, Risk and Protective Factors
  • Increased knowledge of help resources and how to access them
  • Increased knowledge of liabilities, policies and procedures for schools
  • Increased knowledge of how to talk to their own teens about suicide/suicide prevention
  • Learn how to respond to a Cry for help
  • Learn how to Start the Conversation of help
  • Readiness – crisis protocols applicable for your school/site and in your community

Children & Elementary Training

Children & Elementary Training

Children & Elementary Training

Some elementary teachers, when learning of a suicidal death of a former student have asked “what could I have done, what should I have known, what could I have seen with this child in my class to have helped prevent this tragedy?”  This curriculum is part of the answer to these questions, as it develops the skills necessary to protect children if they become suicidal at some point in their life.


Yellow Ribbon’s Elementary Ask 4 Help® curriculum specializes in the ongoing development and reinforcement of the following protective factors in children and youth. Many of these protective factors will look very familiar, as they are synonymous with or identical to, student outcomes and support systems listed in 21st Century Skills. (21stcenturyskills.org).  This curriculum follows the recognized safe messaging prevention practices.

  

To support the fidelity of this training program, follow the training sequence.

  1. Training for Educators and School staff.  (3 hour workshop, Parents can be invited)
    Section 1: Be A Link!®-E  Gatekeeper Training.  Appropriate for all school staff.
    Section 2: How to use the curriculum.
  2. Parent and Community seminars. (Optional)
  3. Student Training(s) Held throughout the school year (Follow-up session or homework as desired).  It is at the discretion of the school to allow parents to attend student sessions.  (Encouraged by Yellow Ribbon)
  4. Evaluation

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