Riverside Trauma Center provides training sessions for mental health professionals, schools, gatekeepers, organizations, workplaces, and others.
Combat to Campus: Supporting the diverse psychosocial needs of veterans in higher education settings
April 13, 2012 9 am-3:45 pm at Worcester State University
Description: A day-long symposium designed to help people better understand and respond to the specific psychosocial needs of combat veterans as they return to higher education. Details are available on this PDF flyer.
Audience: College/university counseling center staff, disability coordinators, other higher education student service personnel, faculty members, and anyone else interested in this topic
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR): Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals
Description: A full-day workshop that is about assessing suicide risk, planning treatment, and managing the ongoing care of the at-risk client. This is a “best practices” training developed by the American Association of Suicidology and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center.
Audience: Mental health professionals
Post Traumatic Stress Management/Psychological First Aid Workshop (PTSM/PFA)
Description: The goal of this comprehensive 2-day training is to prepare participants to deliver basic behavioral health disaster response skills following large-scale disasters or critical incidents, such as homicides, suicides, accidental deaths, and similarly distressing events. Participants will be presented with the evolution of efforts to assist survivors following trauma, and provided with an overview of the human stress response and how it affects the choice of interventions used with distressed individuals. The 9-phase Post Traumatic Stress Management continuum and the 8 core functions of Psychological First Aid (PFA) will be discussed.
Audience: Schools, community agencies, workplaces, and other organizations.
Postvention: Responding to Schools and Communities Following Adolescent Suicide
Description: This 1.5-2 hour training teaches participants how to address the needs of their communities in the aftermath of a sudden and often public death. Participants learn to
1) promote healthy grieving; 2) stabilize the school or workplace environment; 3) provide support for those most impacted by the death; and in the case of schools, 4) reduce the risk of suicide imitation or contagion.
This training is based on Riverside Trauma Center's Postvention Protocols, which have been approved for listing in the Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention, a collaboration between the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Audience: School administrators, community leaders, and human resource staff.
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR)
Description: This evidence-based training takes 1 hour, and is for gatekeepers to learn how to help someone who might be considering suicide. The gatekeepers in this instance are people who, during the regular course of their lives, have contact with a certain population who might be at risk for suicide. QPR teaches how to recognize the warning signs, clues, and suicidal communications of people in trouble so they can act vigorously to prevent a possible tragedy. It is modeled after CPR: spend an hour and learn how to save a life.
Audience: All members of a community can benefit from this training, including neighbors, colleagues, family members, and others. The workshop can be tailored for specific groups like coaches, first responders, clergy, teachers, etc.
Recognizing Depression and Suicide Risk
Description: This 1-2 hour training discusses the signs and symptoms of depression and suicide. The risk factors for suicide and the protective factors for suicide prevention will be highlighted. This workshop gives the attendees the tools to identify people with serious depression and/or suicide risk, and provides them with the skills and knowledge to support and refer the depressed and/or suicidal person to the appropriate mental health services.
Audience: Schools, community agencies, workplaces, and other organizations.
Gatekeeper Trainings on Recognizing Warning Signs of Depression and Suicide in Elders
Description: This 2-hour training discusses the unique risk factors for suicide in elders and the methods for screening an elder for suicidal ideation and risk. The training is for gatekeepers who, during the regular course of their lives, have contact with elders. This workshop will also explore strategies for immediate and longer-term treatment options for people identified with depression and/or a high suicide risk. Referral options will also be shared along with how to decide which kinds of referrals to make.
Audience: Agencies, healthcare providers, and others working with elder populations.
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