Kansas Suicide Prevention Trainer-the-Trainer Sessions Registration

Kansas Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Train-the-Trainer Registration

• This is a one-day Question, Persuade, Refer Train-the-Trainer seminar hosted by DCCCA.
• This certification course trains instructors to teach QPR for Suicide Prevention to their community.
• Participants first learn about the nature of suicidal communications, what forms these communications take and how they may be used as the stimulus for a QPR intervention. To gain perspective, participants are introduced to the history of suicide, suicide prevention and the spectrum of modern day public health suicide prevention education efforts. The history, background and research support for QPR are reviewed.
• Participants then learn to market QPR, target potential Gatekeepers, and how to teach the QPR curriculum.
• Participants also learn to deal with pent up audience demand to talk about suicide, survivor issues and how to make immediate interventions and referrals. Each participant has the opportunity for individual rehearsal and practice through role-plays.
• Please be on time. If you are 15 minutes late, you will not be admitted.
• As a Kansas QPR trainer, you will be expected to co-facilitate 2 Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) trainings per year (DCCCA will cover the costs associated with the trainings).

Kansas Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Train-the-Trainer Registration

• This is a two-day CALM Train-the-Trainer seminar.
• This training will authorize you to facilitate both the Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Clinical Workshop and Conversations on Access to Lethal Means (CALM Conversations). At the successful conclusion of the training, you will receive materials to deliver both CALM trainings in your community.
• What You'll Learn:
  • Why talking about safe storage of firearms and medications is crucial to preventing suicide
  • Ways to increase the safety of firearm and medication storage
  • How to effectively lead both CALM trainings with hands-on practice
  • How to use local suicide data to strengthen your presentations
  • You’ll also get access to CALM-SAFE, a firearms safety training that helps you communicate better with gun owners
• NOTE: Participants must pass a post-test to complete the program.
• Participants must attend ALL of the training on both days to become a trainer.
• Please be on time. If you are 15 minutes late, you will not be admitted.
• As a Kansas CALM trainer, you will be expected to co-facilitate 2 Counseling on Access to Lethal Means and/or Conversations on Access to Lethal Means trainings per year (DCCCA will cover the costs associated with the trainings).

Kansas Connect Community Suicide Postvention Training*

• This is a one-day training offered by NAMI New Hampshire.
  • This training will take place on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025 (8:30 AM to 3:30 PM) via Zoom.
• This training is geared specifically towards individuals in the following sectors:
  • school leadership
  • social services
  • physical and mental health care
  • faith leaders & funeral directors
  • first responders
  • coroners 
• About the training: The aftermath of a suicide can deeply affect a community, rippling through families, friends, coworkers,schools, and faith communities. Connect Postvention Training equips service providers with the skills and knowledge needed to respond effectively to a suicide or sudden death, helping to support healing whilereducing future risk of additional deaths by suicide. Postvention is not just a response, but an essential part of suicide prevention. Given that knowing someonewho has died by suicide is a significant risk factor, postvention plays a critical role in reducing suicide ratesand promoting long-term wellness.

*The NAMI NH Connect Postvention Training is not a train-the-trainer opportunity. This is a training for community members to build skills to respond effectively and provide support after a suicide loss in their community.

Kansas Youth Mental Health First Aid Train-the-Trainer Registration

 This is a three-day training offered by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

• This training teaches you how to:
  • Teach the Mental Health First Aid course, including the 5-step ALGEE Action Plan, evidence-supported treatment and self-help strategies and prevalence data.
  • Apply the MHFA Instructional Guiding Principles.
  • Utilize MHFA technology, explain MHFA curriculum concepts.
  • Facilitate MHFA curriculum to fidelity.
  • Explain MHFA Instructor policies and processes.

• Participants will complete approximately 2 hours of self-paced pre-work before the first day of in-person or virtual training.
  • If it has been six months or longer since you completed the MHFA training course, we recommend that you watch the MHFA Facilitation Modeling Videos. This will take an additional 6-7 hours. These self-paced assignments can be completed at your leisure prior to the course. You will receive access once you are fully registered for the course.
    
    
• Each Instructor candidate must attend the entire training and teach an assigned portion of the 8-hour course to the group.
  
  
• Each Instructor candidate will provide a peer review for their colleagues.
  National Trainers will conduct an individual evaluation of and provide feedback to each candidate.
  
  
• Participants will complete approximately 1 hour of post-work after the 3-day in-person or virtual training. Only after all post-work has been completed will the candidate receive full instructor certification and a certificate. Certified Instructors can teach both Blended and In-person MHFA courses.

Certification is not guaranteed for all participants. To become certified, participants must complete all online course work, be present for the entire training, satisfactorily deliver the presentation and pass an exam.

Kansas AFSP Suicide Bereavement Support Group Facilitator Train-the-Trainer Registration

The AFSP Facilitator Training Program offers suicide prevention organizers a way to create and facilitate a community support group for suicide loss survivors in the aftermath of a suicide. Courses are offered as two-day trainings of up to 36 attendees, and include lecture, interactive discussion, and role-playing. They are led by experts in the field of suicide bereavement. 

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