NETWORK OF SAFETY
Everyone has a role in suicide prevention, and there's a role for everyone!
The goal is simple: We want anyone, anywhere to notice if a person is struggling, and to be willing to talk about suicide.
Asking directly about suicide will not "plant the idea," but it could be the exact thing that helps save a life.
Prevention trainings address "upstream" protective factors, suicide awareness, mental health promotion, and community helper skills to recognize and connect an individual to further support.
We're not born with the skills and tools to help someone through a suicide crisis, but anyone can learn how to have these life-saving conversations.
Intervention trainings offer a person-centered, trauma-informed approach to meeting a person's needs and helping THEM choose safety using evidence-based frameworks shown to save lives.
Learning and practicing intervention skills will increase your confidence in supporting clients, friends, family, and loved ones.
The tragedy of suicide loss has far-reaching and lasting impacts. The care we can provide to individuals and communities following a suicide attempt or death is called postvention.
Done well, postvention has the potential to prevent further suicides, a phenomenon known as suicide contageon, or the spread of suicide thoughts. Planning for this type of support using best practices before a crisis can be so helpful for communities and the agencies tasked with providing this support.
SafeTALK - Suicide Alertness for Everyone is a prevention and awareness workshop that trains participants to become alert helpers who can recognize individuals with thoughts of suicide, engage them in direct and open talk about suicide, and quickly connect them with someone who can do a more in-depth suicide intervention, which may include an ASIST-trained caregiver. This approach bolsters an overall network of safety.
Duration: 4 hours
Audience: Anyone 15 years or older
Cost: $100 with group discounts and agency pricing available
Oregon Community CALM - Conversations on Access to Lethal Means is a prevention and awareness workshop designed to help family, friends, and community members have life-saving conversations with individuals who may be thinking of suicide or during times of crisis. This community helper skills training has an added focus on reducing access to lethal means, especially firearms and medications. Oregon Community CALM is neither anti-gun nor anti-medication and is based on the provider-focused Oregon CALM training and research with Oregonians who own firearms.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Audience: Anyone 18 years or older
Cost: $25
Sources of Strength is a strength-based,​​​​, upstream suicide prevention and mental health promotion program that promotes well-being, help-seeking, resilience, healthy coping, and a sense of belonging. Rather than focusing solely on risk factors, Sources of Strength supports multiple protective factors, ensuring individuals have resources to rely on during difficult times. This program fosters health and wellness, empowering youth and adults to build communities of belonging and connection in K-12 schools, higher education, community-based settings, and even workplaces.
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This highly customizable program can vary in length and cost. Please reach out to discuss your needs.
LivingWorks Start is an interactive online course that teaches individuals to recognize when someone has thoughts of suicide and take effective action to connect them with help. In-depth course customization supports learners across a range of experience levels through interactive practice simulations and a wide-range of scenarios spanning personal and professional settings across the lifespan. Participants receive 60 day access to course content and lifetime access to the LivingWorks Connect online platform.
Duration: 1-2 hours
Audience: Anyone 13 years or older
Cost: $39.95 with group discounts and agency pricing available
ASIST - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training is an in-depth training developed by LivingWorks that prepares individuals to provide suicide first-aid intervention using the evidence-based Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL) model. Backed by numerous peer reviewed studies and government reports, ASIST is recognized in SAMHSA’s and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s national registry of best practices, and it is often referred to as the "GOLD STANDARD" in suicide intervention training. Although many professional caregivers use ASIST, anyone 16 or older can learn these life-saving skills.
Duration: 16 hours (2 consecutive days)
Audience: Anyone 16 years or older
Cost: $320 with group discounts and agency pricing available
Youth SAVE - Suicide Assessment in Virtual Environments was developed by the Oregon Pediatric Society to equip school-based and community-based mental health professionals with the tools to virtually assess for suicide, and to intervene with youth who have thoughts of suicide. The training uniquely addresses youth as a culture, and addresses culture and intersecting identities more broadly.
Duration: 11 hours (2 half-days)
Audience: School and youth-serving community based mental health professionals
Cost: $150 with group discounts and agency pricing available
Oregon CALM - Counseling on Access to Lethal Means assists health care and direct service providers in using Lethal Means Counseling with an informed, collaborative, and respectful approach. Neither anti-gun nor anti-medication, Oregon CALM seeks to build confidence in addressing these highly lethal means with clients at risk of suicide. Several creative solutions for creating time and distance will be shared, along with lessons learned from research conducted in rural parts of Oregon with individuals who own firearms. This training was adapted by Incite Agency for Change, Oregon Health Authority, and Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs with permission from CALM America.
Duration: 8 hours
Audience: Health care professionals and direct service providers, defined broadly
Cost: $250 (in-person) or $200 (virtual) with group discounts and agency pricing available
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 long-term actions that work in collaboration with community partners.
This program is most effective with community partners attending together. Please reach out to discuss your needs.
Duration: 6 hours
Audience: Service providers and community organizations
Cost: Free
Incite Training & Technical Assistance
Incite Agency for Change also provides consultation and content expertise. But you are the expert on your community and organization! As such, we view any kind of consultation as a highly collaborative process. Some of the ways we may be able to support your agency’s work include the following:
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Tailored Booster Trainings
We have developed customizable booster trainings to reinforce key concepts, refresh skills, and build confidence with suicide community helper and intervention skills. They include structured dialogue, Q&A, agency resources, customized scenarios, and additional practice opportunities.
Customized Training Programs & Curriculum Development
We have experience creating evidence-based, research-informed trainings and workshops on a variety of suicide prevention and public health topics for a range of audiences, including youth, young adults, families, communities members, and professionals.
Creating a Scaffolded Approach to Training & Prevention Efforts
Everyone can have a role in prevention, different roles require different depths of training and expertise, and all of these roles can work together to create a network of safety for your clients, staff, families, and community. We can help identify who within your organization or community could benefit from what level of training, recommend the best trainings to meet those needs, and provide trainings if we are able.
Have other ideas of ways we might be able to help?
We would love to hear them!