This training is being sponsored by the Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs and Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness, in partnership with Wallowa Education Service District. Lunch will be provided.

Connect Postvention is a training model that provides community building, education, and strategic planning for service providers who may be called on for help in the aftermath of a suicide. Postvention is a term used to describe how different systems and organizations work together using a planned response protocol in the case of a suicide or any sudden death. The training includes best practices on how to coordinate a safe and supportive response to suicide and pragmatic recommendations for reducing the risk of additional suicide attempts or deaths (suicide contagion), including talking safely about suicide; responding to media; funerals and memorials; how to help individuals, families, and communities heal; and creating a suicide postvention response plan with immediate and…