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A Tiered Approach to Impact
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Foundational
Accessible, community-based education that meets people where they are, designed for anyone.
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Applied Skills
Training for anyone including those in helping professions and high-impact sectors (not requiring clinical credentials).
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Specialized Training
Offers advanced, tailored learning for professionals, leaders, and organizations working in specific roles, systems, or communities.
Accessible, community-based education that meets people where they are, designed for anyone.
Foundational
The Foundational Learning Tier offers entry points for communities to engage in meaningful, inclusive learning around suicide prevention, mental health, and healing after loss.
This tier focuses on accessible, community-based education that meets people where they are — emotionally, geographically, and culturally.
This tier is designed for anyone — whether you’re just beginning to explore these topics or looking for ways to support your community more intentionally.
No prior knowledge required, just a willingness to listen, learn, and lead with heart.
Focus: Awareness, understanding, and stigma reduction
Goal: Introduce core concepts, reduce stigma, and create an entry point for deeper engagement
Audience: General public, anyone interested
Tone: Conversational, accessible, community-centered
- Community Trainings: Introductory workshops and suicide prevention basics — designed for workplaces, schools, faith communities, and neighborhood groups.
- Storytelling: Facilitated workshops where individuals with lived experience share their stories of hope, healing, and resilience. These sessions honor the power of narrative and human connection to reduce stigma and inspire change.
- Community Conversations: Small-group dialogues that create safe spaces for honest discussion around suicide, mental health, grief, and recovery. These conversations can be industry specific or generalized.
Training for anyone including those in helping professions and high-impact sectors (not requiring clinical credentials).
Applied Skills
The Skills-Based Tier provides hands-on, evidence-informed training for individuals ready to deepen their understanding and sharpen their ability to respond effectively to suicide risk.
Whether this is your first step into the work or a next step after foundational learning, these programs are designed to build competence and confidence.
This tier is open to everyone — community members, professionals, caregivers, educators, and anyone ready to learn life-saving skills.
Whether you're coming with lived experience, clinical expertise, or simply a desire to help, you’ll walk away with tools to make a real difference.
- ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training): A two-day intensive that teaches participants how to recognize warning signs, engage someone at risk, and create a collaborative safety plan.
- CALM (Counseling on Access to Lethal Means): A skills-focused training that teaches how to have informed, respectful conversations about reducing access to lethal means — particularly firearms — during times of crisis.
- Other Specialized Trainings: Including topic and/or population focused, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid (Advanced Modules), and more — each focused on practical, real-world application.
Offers advanced, tailored learning for professionals, leaders, and organizations working in specific roles, systems, or communities.
Specialized Training
The Specialized Training Tier offers advanced, tailored learning for professionals, leaders, and organizations working in specific roles, systems, or communities. These sessions go beyond general awareness to help participants apply suicide prevention and postvention strategies in culturally relevant, professionally aligned, and system-informed ways.
Ideal for those with some baseline awareness or prior exposure to suicide prevention, these trainings are nuanced, practical, and often co-designed to meet the real-world needs of your team or community.
- Custom Trainings by Request: We partner with organizations to co-design trainings that meet the specific needs of their field, audience, and culture — from law enforcement agencies to youth-serving nonprofits.
- Clinical Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Providers: CEU-accredited sessions for clinicians focused on evidence-informed practices including risk assessment, collaborative safety planning, care transitions, and follow-up.
- Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention: Trainings designed to address the unique needs of vulnerable communities, veterans, and others disproportionately affected by suicide — centering lived experience, trust-building, and equity.
