FREE Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Training Classes for Professionals & Community Members
A La Carte Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Trainings FREE and open to professionals and community members!
(Detailed class descriptions in tickets. Attendees can sign up for more than one training as long as the times do not conflict with each other)
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 11, 8am-4:30pm and Wednesday, June 12, 8am-4:30pm
Requirement: Attendees must attend both days
Target audience: Adult community members & professionals
Cost: Free, includes light breakfast, lunch, snacks & beverages
Class size max: 30
CEU: 16 clock hours (POST Board approved for 16 hours of general continuing education).
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day (16 hour) interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Studies show that the ASIST method helps reduce suicidal feelings in those at risk and is a cost-effective way to help address the problem of suicide.
Learning goals and objectives
Over the course of their two-day workshop, ASIST participants learn to:
Workshop features:
Date/Time: June 12, 2-5pm
Prerequisite: Completion of QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Class, offered from 12-2PM (can opt out if previously completed)
Target audience: designed for mental health professionals such as social service professionals and health care providers: case manager, nurse, ARHMS, social worker, CTSS, RN, LPN, MD, licensed therapist, and law enforcement officers.
Cost: Free
CEU: 3 clock hours (POST Board approved for 3 hours of general continuing education).
Reducing access to lethal means, such as firearms and medication, can determine whether a person at risk for suicide lives or dies. This course focuses on how to reduce access to the methods people use to kill themselves.
It covers how to:
Participants will be expected to role-play coaching others on Reducing Access to Lethal Means.
Date/Time: June 12, 11am-12pm OR 2-3pm
Length of Training: 1 hour
Targeted audience: Everyone! Community Members & Professionals
CEU: 1 clock hour available (POST Board approved for 1 hour of first aid education).
Class size max: 30 per session
At this training you'll learn:
...and more!
Each participant will receive an IM naloxone kit and fentanyl test strips
Length of Training: 1 hour (POST Board approved for 1 hour of first aid education).
CEU: 1 clock hour available
Date/Time: June 12, 12-2pm
Target Audience: community members 18 years and older and professionals including health care workers, first responders, law enforcement, educators, clergy, bankers, lawyers and more!
Cost: Free. This training is funded by a grant from McLeod Meeker Sibley County Community Health Services
CEU: 2 clock hours (POST Board approved for 1 hour of Mandated Training: Crisis Intervention and Mental Illness Crisis [1,5,6,8]).
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade and refer someone to help. It is the most widely taught gatekeeper training in the United States that teaches best practices in suicide prevention.
You will learn about suicide warning signs, myths & facts, local statistics and resources.
Date/Time: June 12, 8:30am-12pm (includes lunch)
Targeted audience: Professionals and farmers, farm family members, and community members who work with or support them (federal/state/county agencies, lenders, accountants, veterinarians, ag-oriented businesses ie. feed and implement dealers, agronomists, faith leaders, medical and mental health providers, etc.)
Class Size Max: 30
CEU: 3.5 clock hours (POST Board approved for 3.5 hours of Mandated Training: Crisis Intervention and Mental Illness Crisis [1,4,5,7]).
Interactive workshop that teaches participants how to recognize someone having thoughts of suicide, how to engage them, and how to make sure they get help.
SafeTALK participants will learn to:
Date/Time: June 12, 10am-12pm
Target audience: Survivors of trauma and loss, including those who have lost loved ones to suicide
Cost: Free. This training activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the SW Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Class size max: 15
CEU: 2 clock hours (POST Board approved for 2 hours of general continuing education).
Expressive art workshop for suicide loss survivors that will benefit ALL survivors of trauma and loss created by the Suicide Survivors' Club (SSC). Participants are guided through the workshop with a series of questions as they create their collage/story portrait. The workshop fosters personal expression and healing insight for participants and time to connect with others who have experienced trauma and loss.
By attending the Story Portrait workshop participants will:
Participants will receive the Story Portrait 5-book series and workbook.
Date/Time: June 12, 8am-2pm
Target audience: Professionals, parents and community members who work and interact with youth
Prerequisite: 2 hours of self-paced online prework must be completed prior to class
Cost: Free, includes light breakfast, lunch, snacks & beverages. This training is funded by a grant from United Way of McLeod County.
CEU: 8 clock hours (POST Board approved for 8 hours of general continuing education).
Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth.
This 6-hour in person training gives adults who work and interact with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to children and adolescents (ages 12-18) who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.
