Training for Federal/State Agencies & Communities
Strengthen your organization’s capacity to address suicide prevention and postvention at a systemic level. Whether you’re a federal or state agency, a community organization, or a service provider working with high-risk populations, Connect Training Services offers a comprehensive, adaptable framework for implementing suicide prevention and postvention strategies across your operations.
Our flexible approach ensures that Connect Training can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your agency or community. We provide a variety of resources, including Connect’s curriculum, interactive case scenarios, postvention protocols, and consultation services, all designed to help you create sustainable, community-wide suicide prevention and response plans.
Whether you’re looking to integrate Connect’s practices into existing programs or develop a new initiative, we can travel to your site for in-person training and provide support in developing tailored strategies for any population, including underserved communities and specific cultural groups. Let Connect help guide your agency or community in building a comprehensive, coordinated approach to suicide prevention and postvention.
How Federal/State Agencies & Communities
Benefit from Connect Training and Services
Federal and state agencies, along with communities, can gain numerous benefits from Connect Training and services, enabling them to enhance their suicide prevention and postvention efforts. Here’s how:
- Comprehensive Suicide Prevention & Postvention: Equip your agency or community with the knowledge and tools to address suicide prevention across multiple levels and respond effectively after a crisis, creating a supportive and healing environment for affected individuals.
- Tailored Training for Any Population: Connect’s training can be customized to meet the unique needs of different populations, including underserved communities, tribal groups, Veterans, and others, ensuring culturally sensitive and relevant strategies.
- Sustainable, System-Wide Impact: Through Train-the-Trainer programs, federal and state agencies can develop internal leaders to continuously deliver suicide prevention and postvention training, ensuring long-term sustainability and broad-reaching impact.
- Collaborative, Community-Wide Approach: Foster collaboration among various sectors, including law enforcement, healthcare, schools, and social services, to build a comprehensive, community-wide suicide prevention network.
- Practical, Actionable Plans: Work with Connect to develop customized suicide prevention and postvention response plans that align with your agency’s or community’s resources, culture, and goals.
- Expert Guidance & Consultation: Connect offers consultation services to ensure successful implementation, helping you integrate best practices into your agency or community’s operations and programs.
- Enhanced Public Health & Safety: By adopting Connect’s evidence-based practices, agencies and communities can improve public health outcomes, reduce suicide rates, and promote long-term well-being for individuals and families.
- Resource and Relationship Building: Build a network of resources and connections with local and national partners, strengthening your agency or community’s ability to support individuals at risk and those affected by suicide.
Through Connect, federal and state agencies, as well as communities, will gain the tools, knowledge, and ongoing support to create a more effective and coordinated suicide prevention and postvention system, making a lasting impact on public health and safety.
Recommended Training & Service Options for Federal/State Agencies & Communities:
- Suicide Prevention eLearning Courses—purchase seats in bulk
- Standard Connect Suicide Prevention or Postvention Training (6 hours)
- Facilitated Suicide Prevention or Postvention Response Planning Session
- Train-the-Trainer packages in Prevention and Postvention
- Consultation Services
Visit the Services page for more information on the recommended training an service options.
Individuals & Small Groups Trained in Connect
Hear About the Connect Experience
The Connect Program opened a door to the discussion of suicide prevention. The training provided the opportunity to be exposed to the warning signs, the importance of promoting prevention opportunities and the emphasis of resilience in the process of committing to social change with a collaboration of school, families and community in reducing suicide.
Thank you so much for that incredible and rich training! We are so thankful for your patience and for keeping everyone engaged throughout the training. It was a great refresher for us all to have and great new information on the power of cultural humility in the prevention of suicide. 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.
What emerged from [the Connect training] was a shared sense of responsibility. Each attendee—whether representing a school, a hospital, a faith group, or a public agency—left with clearer insight into their role in supporting healing and hope. The collaborative energy reflected a united commitment: to support those impacted by loss, to connect across systems, and to build a region-wide network of care.
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.
Training for Federal & State Agencies FAQs
Community Helper training equips individuals of all types and roles (e.g., family, teachers, coaches, healthcare providers) within any community with skills to recognize suicide warning signs and offer support. It teaches how to identify at-risk individuals, engage in empathetic conversations, and connect them with resources. It aims to create a supportive network within the community, where people are empowered to intervene and prevent suicide.
Prevention/intervention and postvention focus on different aspects of suicide and are generally taught separately. Prevention/intervention addresses identifying warning signs and intervening before an attempt, while postvention supports those after a suicide. Although postvention can act as a form of prevention by addressing the aftermath and preventing further tragedies, when these topics are introduced for the first time, they are generally taught separately. This ensures that participants can fully engage with and absorb the unique content of each training.
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.
