How to participate in suicide prevention training

We as a collective community have been and continue to navigate layers of trauma, grief, loss, and chronic stress. This intensity includes experiences connected to the COVID-19 pandemic which is an ongoing threat to our health and those we love. Many communities, including folks who identify as BIPOC, those living with disabilities, undocumented people and their families, low-income and working class folks, and more are encountering disparities made even greater due to the pandemic. There is continued racial violence and hate crimes, increases in interpersonal violence, as well as ongoing unrest and upheaval close to home and around the globe. We acknowledge the complex, heavy realities our community is navigating, as well as the fact that these pressures have deep impacts on our health, physically and mentally, as a collective.

With that being said, Victim Advocacy and Violence Prevention in the Office of Student Affairs is extending the offer to participate in a training that enables us to care for community members and for our campus who are or may in the future experience suicide ideation. This is an invitation to access QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training online in collaboration with Partners for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH) who serves youth through young adulthood.  This 90-minute training is available online on a rolling basis.

To register for this training, or PCMH’s other training opportunities, please visit https://pcmh.org/training-center/. This training is a resource, rather than a solution to such a deep, complex experience. If you have capacity to engage in this opportunity, please feel free to do so. If you or someone you know is experiencing suicide ideation, Colorado Crisis Services offers free and confidential support via phone, text and walk-in crisis centers. Their 24/7 hotline can be reached at 1-844-493-8255, as well as via text (text “TALK” to 38255). To find your nearest walk-in crisis center, you  may click here.

Please contact us if you have any questions, HRInfo@regis.edu.