This course is for those on the “front lines” of suicide prevention: crisis volunteers and professionals, 911 and 211 operators, I&R workers, clergy, school counselors, case managers, occupational therapists, health care workers or anyone who is likely to come into first contact with someone who may be suicidal. Often times this first contact may be in a clinical care or first responder setting.
A customized version of this course is available for law enforcement, EMS/firefighters, nurses and primary care physicians and physician assistants (please course listings).
This interactive course teaches you how to detect and interview people in crisis, how to determine if they are suicidal, how to assess immediate risk of suicide, as well as how to immediately reduce the risk of a suicide attempt or completion through a safety planning and referral process.
We will teach you what to say, what questions to ask, what the answers to your questions mean and how these answers will help determine risk and next steps to ensure the person’s safety. The training will also be helpful in working with people in text over the internet.
This online training program cannot cover all the relevant things you need to know, but through our consultations with hundreds of professionals and their input, we have a pretty good idea of some helpful things we can teach you and that you should find of value.
A complimentary 1st Responder Training manual to supplement this online training program with a classroom post-training experience is available on request.
Suicide rates for QPR courses are US-specific. To determine suicide rates in your country, please visit the World Health Organization at http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/ .
As you will see, many of these reports are quite dated. If your country keeps such data but does not necessarily report to WHO, try Googling federal, state, or province name and "suicide rate." If you are teaching suicide prevention courses you will need this data; the more local the data the better. But remember that suicide rates need 5 to 10 year horizons to be of much value as to interpreting any changes in trend lines.
As background to building this course, you should know that what we will teach you is also taught to mental health professionals, nurses, law enforcement professionals, and many others who are in the front ranks of health care and suicide prevention work.
Highlights:
As of this writing in the Spring of 2011, the Institute has trained more than 10,000 Certified Gatekeeper Instructors who have, in turn, trained more than one million gatekeepers worldwide. In addition, thousands of clinical health care providers have been trained in how to detect, assess, and manage suicidal consumers.
If this sounds like an "army" of people helping to prevent suicide, it is. Now, with your help, we will create a new division in that army of people trained to help prevent suicide.
While expert opinion may differ as to what helper competencies are required to assist suicidal persons achieve the most beneficial outcomes, little controversy exists about the lack of qualified manpower to help the thousands of people who think about, attempt and sometimes die by suicide, including those you respond to in the line of duty.
Even among licensed professionals there is a serious lack of systematic training in how to a) detect suicide risk, b) assess immediate risk for suicidal behaviors and c) provide helpful crisis mitigation services to suicidal persons.
The history and source of the Institute's training programs is derived from earlier research and development work in partnership with Washington State University, The Washington Institute for Mental Health Research, the Washington State Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Spokane Mental Health, and Spokane County Regional Health District.
We believe that crisis volunteers, first responders, 911 and 211 professionals, case managers, emergency services professionals, corrections professionals as well as many others in frequent contact with at risk populations need to know as much about suicidal behaviors and how to intervene to reduce risk and enhance safety as do trained mental health professionals.
To this end, the online program you are about to take is intended to train you in the knowledge and skills you will need to provide competent services in suicide risk detection, initial intervention, and how to immediately mitigate the risk of a suicide attempt.
This training is not a substitute for a college degree in counseling or other helping profession, nor can it provide the face-to-face supervised experience those in the helping professions are provided in the course of their professional career development.
This training program teaches initial and basic suicide risk assessment skills. Advanced suicide risk assessment training for healthcare professionals is available from the QPR Institute in a course entitled: QPRT Suicide Risk Assessment and Risk Management Training.
Modularized in a rich mix of text, video, voice-over PowerPoint™ lectures, interactive practice sessions, and other state-of-the-art e-learning technologies, the QPR Suicide Triage Certificate requires completing all online modules and passing a final exam. If the learner passes this national exam he or she will have demonstrated more knowledge about suicide and its prevention than a large majority of mental health professionals. Additional classroom and support training is recommended.
If you have not yet completed basic QPR training, it is recommended, but not required, that you complete it before taking this course.
By completing this training volunteers, students, and paid professionals are awareded QPR Suicide Triage Certificate.
NOTE: If you intend to purchase more than one course, please contact Dana Zavala at (888) 726-7926 or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Certificate of Course Completion (6 hours) | Pricing |
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Per person |
$119.00 |
10-25 |
$95.00 |
26-50 |
$83.00 |
51+ |
$71.00 |
Volunteers |
$71.00 |
Large employers may inquire about discounted unlimited use licenses (3 year minimum contract is required).
For any questions with pricing, please contact Brian Quinnett @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thank you for helping to prevent suicide.