The registration period has closed for this event.

Registration closes 2/4/2023 8:30 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Roger Brubaker, MPH, Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Lane County Public Health

School Administrators, School Counselors, School Psychologists and others in leadership positions who respond to school crises.

Connect is an evidence-based Postvention training which offers to meet the following objectives:

• Best practices on how to coordinate a comprehensive and safe response to a death by suicide.
• Strategies for reducing the risk of contagion review of the complexity of suicide-related grief, especially for different age groups.
• Recommendations for memorial activities.
• Suggestions on how to talk to survivors of suicide loss to promote their healing.
• Best practices for safe messaging about suicide and responding to the media.
• Identification of community resources to promote healing.

This in-person training will provide guidance and processing time for community leaders to support communities that have experienced death by suicide.