Upcoming Trainings

Our region and our state have higher-than-average adult and youth suicide rates. How can faith leaders and faith communities restore hope, before and after a suicide?

Creating Hope, co-presented by Samaritan Counseling Center and NAMI Fox Valley, will explore that question. The workshop equips faith leaders and faith communities to prevent, intervene in, and minister in the wake of suicide.

 

8:00 to 8:30 a.m.- Registration, Breakfast, and Resource Fair

8:30 to 8:45 a.m.- Welcome and Overview

8:45 to 9:00 a.m.- One Congregation’s Story

9:00 to 9:45 a.m.- Prevention: Resiliency and Seeing the Signs of Risk

(Contributing Factors; Means Restriction; Mental Health First Aid; Wellness Screen)

9:45 to 10:00 a.m.- Break

10:00 to 10:45 a.m.- Intervention: Guiding Someone to the Help they Need

(QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)/ACT (Ask, Care, Tell); Crisis Intervention & Hope Line; Alternatives to Suicide Adult Group; Counseling & Hospitalization)

10:45 to 11:30 a.m.- Post-vention: Recovery & Grief/Loss

(Post-hospitalization/Counseling; SOS (Survivors of Suicide Grief Support Group): One Family’s Story; Recovery for a Faith Community)                      

11:30 to 11:45 a.m.- Wrap up, Certificate of Attendance, Evaluation