Suicide Prevention in Colorado Schools

DBT ON-DEMAND

This course is a self-paced introductory overview of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a therapeutic approach focused on building skills around mindfulness, stress management, and healthy relationships. In this course, particular recommendations are offered for facilitating learning in individual/group environments and within remote learning environments.

LIVE 5-PART DBT SERIES

This training occurs over five consecutive weeks to facilitate learning, dialogue, and implementation of DBT skills. Each week, participants review one module and learn a skill to use in their personal and professional lives. Modules includes mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and finding the middle path. Want to arrange this series? Complete our training request form!

CUSTOMIZED TRAININGS

We can provide customized trainings to meet the needs of school communities. For example, we offer families support and coaching on suicide prevention practices within the home. We also support training for educators looking to improve their ability to manage feelings of stress and burnout. If you want to arrange specific opportunities for your school or staff, please fill in our training request form.

Suicide Intervention & Postvention Workshops

PCMH offers workshops for schools on developing suicide intervention and postvention policies and procedures. Suicide intervention workshops review best practice guidelines to intervene with students experiencing thoughts of suicide. Suicide postvention workshops go over ways to respond after a suicide loss. Participants will also be given the opportunity for discussion, dialogue, and idea sharing with other school professionals.

Unstuck and On Target

Unstuck provides ready-made small group lesson plans with companion parent materials in English and Spanish that build executive functions and help students regulate their thinking, feelings and behavior.  It uses a strengths-based approach to improve social flexibility and readiness for learning, so it addresses academic needs and social-emotional learning standards. It creates calmer classrooms and better independent learners through a contagious common language of emotion regulation, flexibility, goal setting and planning.​​​  

QUESTION, PERSUADE, REFER
(QPR)

QPR is a 1.5 hour training for anyone 18+ who wants to learn more about youth suicide risk and warning signs, prevention strategies, and how to support a youth having thoughts of suicide. These trainings are free and offered on a monthly basis. While this PCMH-led course is specifically focused on youth in Colorado, the skills of QPR transfer to other ages and states.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop. In this evidence-based training, participants learn how to recognize when a youth may have thoughts of suicide and create a plan to support their immediate safety. Participants will also learn to use a suicide intervention model. If you are interested in scheduling ASIST for your group, please contact info@pcmh.org.