Training for Organizations & Businesses
Equip the employees of your organization or members of your community with the knowledge and skills to prevent suicide and support healing after a loss. Whether you’re part of a for-profit or nonprofit organization—such as large or small business, healthcare setting, government agency, college campus, faith-based group, social services agency, or emergency service—Connect Training Services offers a comprehensive, community-centered approach to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention that can benefit your employees and suicide prevention/postvention efforts.
Our flexible and customizable training supports your organizational needs and goals, with a focus on building a sustainable, collaborative safety net for individuals at risk. Connect’s training empowers your team with the tools to identify and intervene with individuals at risk of suicide, as well as coordinate a comprehensive, compassionate, coordinated response following a suicide. We offer a range of resources, including Connect’s curriculum, interactive case scenarios, postvention protocols for a variety of sectors, and consultations to ensure cultural relevance and the effective implementation of these practices.
Connect’s team can travel to your organization for on-site training and facilitating both prevention and postvention plans tailored to your specific community and organizational culture. For those with a remote workforce, our team offers virtual training services. Additionally, we provide consultation services to provide guidance on how to integrate best practices into your organization’s ongoing efforts to promote mental health and wellness, ensuring long-term success in suicide prevention and postvention strategies.
How Organizations & Businesses Benefit from
Connect Training and Services
Organizations that partner with Connect gain the tools and expertise to prevent suicide and respond effectively after a crisis. Here’s how Connect can benefit your organization or business:
- Improved Suicide Prevention & Intervention: Equip your team with the skills to identify risk factors and intervene effectively, enhancing your organization’s capacity to support individuals at risk.
- Shared Understanding of Postvention: Prior to a suicide or sudden death, Connect’s postvention training helps your organization or business understand how to provide coordinated, compassionate support to those affected, promoting healing and reducing contagion risk.
- Culturally Relevant & Community-Focused: Connect tailors services to your organization’s specific needs and cultural context, ensuring strategies are impactful and relevant.
- Sustainable, Long-Term Impact: Through Train-the-Trainer programs, your organization can develop internal experts to lead ongoing suicide prevention and postvention efforts.
- Collaborative Learning: Foster interdepartmental collaboration and strengthen teamwork through Connect’s training, enhancing your ability to implement a unified prevention and postvention strategy.
- Custom Plans for Prevention & Postvention: Develop tailored suicide prevention and postvention plans that align with your organization’s resources and culture.
- Expert Guidance & Resources: Receive consultation and support to ensure successful implementation and sustainability of your suicide prevention and postvention practices.
- Enhanced Employee & Community Well-being: Demonstrate a commitment to mental health and foster a supportive environment for both employees and the broader community.
By partnering with Connect, your employees will be equipped to both prevent suicide and respond effectively in times of crisis, promoting long-term well-being for all involved.
Recommended Training & Service Options for Organizations:
- Suicide Prevention eLearning Courses—purchase seats in bulk
- Standard Connect Suicide Prevention or Postvention Training
- Facilitated Suicide Prevention or Postvention Response Planning Session
- Foundational Training Series
- Specialized Training Series
- Train-the-Trainer packages in Prevention and Postvention
- Consultation Services
Visit the Services page for more information on the recommended training an service options.
Organizations Trained in Connect
Hear About the Connect Experience
The training allowed our team to recognize our common bond of humanity, with all its challenges and the good as well. It brought us into a realm that we do not usually get to explore together, and we grew from that.
The information provided will help our staff facilitate conversations with children and families, provide psychoeducation to children and families around protective/risk factors, safety plan with families, and help them better assess for suicidality in our community.
The postvention training helped us teach campus leaders about the importance of having a comprehensive plan in place and the strategies needed to effectively respond to many facets of a death by suicide. The open, flexible, inviting, knowledgeable style made the training very productive, useful, and pleasurable.
The Connect presenter was excellent with a wealth of experience and knowledge!!!!
Training for Organizations FAQs
Connect offers a variety of in-person and online training programs for a variety of audiences. Types of training include:
- Suicide Prevention/Intervention: A Nationally Designated Best Practice Program, Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention training utilizes a unique, community-based, public health approach to increase the competence of participants in recognizing and responding to individuals who are suicidal or at risk for suicide. Connect helps participants examine suicide in the context of the individual, family, community, and society.
- Suicide Postvention: A Nationally Designated Best Practice Program, this training focuses on promoting healing and reducing risk after a suicide. It is geared toward professionals who are involved in responding to a suicide death, such as school counselors, faith leaders, law enforcement, and mental health/substance abuse providers. It is not appropriate for general community members who do not have a direct role in postvention responses. Connect Postvention Training equips key stakeholders in a community with the knowledge and skills to navigate grief and the complex legal and ethical challenges after a suicide. The training can be combined with a Postvention Response Planning Session which is a planning tool to help participants develop protocols for an integrated response system.
- Facilitated Planning Session: A full day of facilitated strategic planning can be added to your training package. A Suicide Prevention Planning Session will guide participants to develop suicide prevention protocols, practices, or initiatives. The Suicide Postvention Response Planning Session is a planning tool to help participants develop protocols for an integrated response system. Up to 25 key stakeholders with responsibility for suicide prevention or postvention response in your community are invited to participate in the session.
- Train-the-Trainer: Connect Train-the-Trainer is available in both suicide prevention and postvention for organizations seeking a sustainable way to deliver quality training to employees or community members. This model builds capacity and sustainability for an organization, community, or state to provide ongoing training at no cost in suicide prevention or postvention for a period of two years before reauthorization is required. Using a unique public health and socio-ecological model, Connect training enhances the ability of professionals to provide effective, coordinated, and appropriate responses to suicide across the lifespan and across systems.
- Specialized workshops on a topic related to suicide prevention: To help organizations and school districts meet the needs of suicide prevention requirements or initiatives, Connect team members can provide 2-3-hour workshops in-person in New Hampshire or virtually for any community on topics related to suicide prevention and postvention. If this is of interest to you, let’s talk about what we can do and what might meet your needs.
- Consultation Services: NAMI New Hampshire has been a national leader in both the fields of suicide prevention and postvention for many years and we are happy to share our experience with you in order to support your community’s efforts. Consultation services can include information about best-practices, assistance with planning and problem-solving, recommendations for implementation, and more. You can select the consultant of your choice from our team.
Postvention is an organized, immediate, short-term, and long-term response in the aftermath of a suicide to promote healing and mitigate the negative effects of exposure to suicide. The U.S. national guidelines developed by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force indicates that an effective postvention response strives to facilitate the healing of individuals from the grief and distress of suicide loss, mitigate other negative effects of exposure to suicide, and prevent suicide among people who are at high risk after exposure to suicide.
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center recommends all settings incorporate postvention as a component of a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention. Key principles for creating a comprehensive postvention effort include:
- Planning ahead to address individual and community needs
- Providing immediate and long-term support
- Tailoring responses and services to the unique needs of suicide loss survivors
Involving survivors of suicide loss in planning and implementing postvention efforts
Connect offers postvention trainings and services to educate key stakeholders in your community about effective postvention response and planning and guide them to develop and implement effective strategies, practices, and protocols that will promote healing.
For all suicide prevention and postvention trainings, costs vary depending on multiple factors including training selected, number of participants, method of delivery, location of training delivery, and number of trainers. Costs include NAMI NH staff time and all materials.
Specialized Workshops
| In Person (NH Only) | Virtual | |
|---|---|---|
| 2-hours | $800 | $1,100 |
| 3-hours | $1,100 | $1,400 |
Consultation
| In Person (NH Only) | Virtual or Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Per Hour | $300 | $300 |
*Prices current as of December 2024. Please call for updated pricing.
*Travel expenses for in-person services are added to the total cost of training package for each NAMI NH staff required for training delivery.
*Virtual trainings incur an additional fee per day for IT technical support prior to, and during, the training.
Prevention/Intervention teaches how to recognize and respond to suicidal thoughts or behaviors before an attempt. Postvention focuses on supporting individuals and communities after a suicide, offering grief support, reducing stigma, and helping to prevent further suicides.
A Postvention Planning Session is for key stakeholders who have decision-making authority or responsibility in developing or managing the services or policies implemented following a suicide or sudden death. Attendance requires prior participation in Postvention training.
A Postvention Planning Session is for key stakeholders who have decision-making authority or responsibility in developing or managing the services or policies implemented following a suicide or sudden death. Attendance requires prior participation in Postvention training.
A Postvention Planning Session is for key stakeholders who have decision-making authority or responsibility in developing or managing the services or policies implemented following a suicide or sudden death. Attendance requires prior participation in Postvention training.
