LivingWorks safeTALK Training

LivingWorks safeTALK training is sponsored through the SAMHSA Mental Health Awareness Training Grant and Care Compass Network. This 3-hour training will prepare you to raise and respond to concerns about suicide in relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. In LivingWorks safeTALK you will learn how to reach out to someone thinking about suicide and help them keep safe by promptly connecting them to further support. Your role as a connector is the main focus of this training. You will also be encouraged and empowered to talk openly with someone about suicide through a 4-step model. Overcoming personal and community attitudes to seeking and providing help is a key theme of this training.

LivingWorks safeTALK has a max capacity of 30 attendees.

Target Audience: Individuals 15+ who are interested in learning how they can help. School-based mental health professionals (counselors, social workers, psychologists), community schools professionals, school-based administrators (building and district level), school resource officers, school nurses, coaches, bus drivers, teacher’s aides, other school-based champions; and community-based mental health professionals.

Trainer: Garra Lloyd-Lester from the Suicide Preventer Center of New York State. Garra has over 30 years of experience in the human services field and is an accomplished professional in the field of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.