Training


Suicide prevention and awareness websites have many resources on risk factors, prevention, support, training, screening and assessment, and care options. Please visit these listed websites to review all information. For specific topics, review individual categories with direct links included. In a life-threatening situation, call 911 immediately.


  • LivingWorks: LivingWorks is a suicide intervention training company that believes suicide is preventable and everyone can learn to play a life-saving role. It offers integrated training programs designed to span a continuum of safety skills. With a common language, philosophy, and approach, LivingWorks gives each trainee a clear role to play and enable these roles to seamlessly come together, creating safety networks for those in need.
  • Prevent Suicide PA - Training: Online training topics for health care providers, mental health providers, schools and educators, developing prevention programs, juvenile justice and the law, and general topics.
  • Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR): People trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.
  • S.A.V.E Gatekeeper Training: Developed in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs and presented by Dr. Megan McCarthy, Deputy Director, Suicide Prevention. You will develop a general understanding of the problem of suicide in the United States; understand how to identify a veteran who may be at risk for suicide; and know what to do if you identify a veteran at risk.
  • Screening for Suicide Risk Training Video: This seven-minute video describes the first part of the Patient Safety Screener, the Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3), a tool for identifying patients in the acute care setting who may be at risk of suicide. This can be administered to all patients who come to the acute care setting, not just those presenting with psychiatric issues.
  • The Trevor Project – Lifeguard Workshop: The Lifeguard Workshop video is a learning tool specifically designed to help young people. Video training and curriculum is based on Trevor’s in-person workshop listed in the SPRC/AFSP Best Practice Registry for Suicide Prevention and is free of charge to educators and youth service providers.