safeTALK Training

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.

Target Audience: 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, other school-based champions; and community-based mental health professionals.