Connect is A program of NAMI NH

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Connect Suicide Prevention and Postvention Services offer comprehensive training, facilitated planning, and consultation to help individuals, organizations, and communities effectively respond to suicide-related challenges.  

Our services are designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to prevent suicide and support healing after a loss.  

Whether you’re seeking in-depth training for staff, facilitated planning sessions to develop community response strategies, or ongoing consultation to support your initiatives, Connect provides tailored solutions to ensure that your efforts are impactful and sustainable.  

Our experienced team is dedicated to creating supportive environments for individuals and organizations to address suicide with compassion, expertise, and practical guidance. 

The Connect Suicide Prevention Program is built on the Social-Ecological Model (SEM), which approaches suicide within the context of the individual’s relationships, family, community, culture, and society at large. Read more about this model and how it informed development of Connect services on the Connect Principles page.

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Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training: Supporting Communities in Prevention and Early Intervention

Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training increases the capacity of professionals and communities to prevent suicide across the lifespan.  Connect uses a public health approach and incorporates key elements of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.  Applying a unique holistic model and offering a community planning component,  Connect stands apart from other training programs. 

What Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training Offers

Connect’s Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training goes beyond basic education. It fosters collaboration, builds relationships, and promotes a community-wide approach to suicide prevention. Before the training, NAMI NH Connect staff consult with the host organization to tailor the program, ensuring it aligns with local cultural and contextual factors and that it will resonate with the audience. This personalized approach makes the training more relevant, impactful, and applicable to the unique needs of the community. 

 

Participants will gain the skills to recognize early warning signs of suicide risk, intervene in a compassionate and effective way, and connect individuals to the appropriate resources. This training uses a public health approach, emphasizing the need for comprehensive strategies in suicide prevention, intervention, and community healing. 

What Participants Will Learn

Training Features

Early Warning Signs: Learn to recognize warning signs of suicide risk in individuals and communities.

 

Effective Intervention: Gain strategies for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them to necessary resources.

 

Cultural Sensitivity: Learn how to adapt the training to reflect cultural differences and local resources.

Training Details

Duration: 1-day (6 hours, with breaks)

Optional: 2nd day available for a Facilitated Suicide Prevention Planning session focused on creating community-specific prevention plans.

Audience: Professionals, community leaders (e.g., educators, healthcare providers, first responders, law enforcement), and community members responsible for suicide prevention and intervention.

Location: Live onsite at a location of the host’s choosing.

Format: Interactive case scenarios, discussions, and practical activities to help participants collaborate across systems and develop tailored prevention plans.

Pre-Training Consultation: Connect staff will work with your organization to incorporate local needs and cultural context into the training. 

Consultation Services: After training, organizations can receive expert guidance to implement prevention strategies effectively. 

Empower Your Community with Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training

Whether you are an educator, healthcare provider, first responder, or community leader, Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training equips you with the skills to make a meaningful difference. Learn to recognize early warning signs, intervene effectively, and work collaboratively to build a comprehensive suicide prevention network in your community. 

 

For more information, please contact us! 

Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training

Connect Postvention Training: Supporting Communities After a Suicide  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 to respond effectively to a suicide or sudden death, helping to support healing while reducing future risk of additional deaths by suicide.  Postvention is not just a response, but an essential part of suicide prevention. Given that knowing someone who has died by suicide is a significant risk factor, postvention plays a critical role in reducing suicide rates and promoting long-term wellness. 

Training Details

Duration: 1-day (6 hours + breaks)

Optional: 2nd day available for Facilitated Postvention Response Planned session focused on creating community-specific postvention response plans.

Audience: Professionals and community leaders who would be involved in developing or implementing protocols and/or responsible for responding to a suicide death that impacts the community.

Location: Live onsite at a location of the host’s choosing.

Format: Interactive case scenarios, discussions, and practical activities to help participants collaborate across systems and develop tailored plans.

Pre-Training Consultation: Connect staff will work with your organization to incorporate local needs and cultural context into the training.

Consultation Services: Consultation Services are available as an add-on service. After participating in Postvention Training, organizations often seek expert guidance as they begin to implement postvention strategies, protocols, or response plans.

Training Features

Early Warning Signs: Learn to recognize warning signs of suicide risk in individuals and communities.

Effective Intervention: Gain strategies for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them to necessary resources.

Postvention Response: Discover how to reduce the risk of contagion and address the complexities of grief following a suicide. Learn to promote healing through safe messaging, community resources, and effective response planning.

Collaboration: Work with other community members and professionals to develop coordinated, community-specific postvention plans.

Cultural Sensitivity: Learn how to adapt the training to reflect cultural differences and local resources.

Empower Your Community with Connect Postvention Training

Whether you’re a mental health provider, community leader, or member of a service organization, Connect Postvention Training equips you with the tools to support those impacted by suicide, reduce future risk, and foster community healing. For more information, please contact us!

What Connect Postvention Training Offers

Connect’s Postvention Training goes beyond simply offering information—it fosters relationship building and the exchange of resources among participants. Before the training, NAMI NH Connect staff consult with the host organization to tailor the program to meet your unique needs, ensuring that local cultural and contextual factors are integrated and that it resonates with your audiences. This ensures that the training is both relevant and impactful. 

Participants will learn to respond to suicide deaths in a coordinated, compassionate manner while also promoting healing within their community. The training incorporates a public health approach and aligns with National Suicide Prevention Strategy protocols, addressing everything from prevention and intervention to postvention and community healing. 

What Participants Will Learn

National Best Practices: Understand key protocols for mental health and substance abuse providers in responding to a suicide.

 

Effective Community Response: Learn how to integrate an effective community response to a suicide death.

 

Emergency Response: Gain knowledge on responding to suicides that occur on agency property or within the community.

 

Risk of Suicide Contagion: Learn strategies for preventing contagion, including guidance on memorial services, media response, and safe messaging.

 

Warning Signs: Recognize the signs of suicide risk in clients or community members after a suicide.

 

Impact on Professionals: Learn strategies to manage the personal and professional challenges that arise when suicide impacts your work environment.

 

Suicide-Related Grief: Address the complexities of suicide-related grief, including cultural considerations.

 

Help-Seeking and Stigma Reduction: Learn to encourage help-seeking behaviors and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and suicide.

 

Legal and Ethical Considerations: Discuss agency protocols, confidentiality, and the legal issues surrounding a client suicide, including psychological autopsies.

Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training

Connect Postvention Training: Supporting Communities After a Suicide  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 to respond effectively to a suicide or sudden death, helping to support healing while reducing future risk of additional deaths by suicide.  Postvention is not just a response, but an essential part of suicide prevention. Given that knowing someone who has died by suicide is a significant risk factor, postvention plays a critical role in reducing suicide rates and promoting long-term wellness. 

Training Details

Duration: 1-day (6 hours + breaks)

Optional: 2nd day available for Facilitated Postvention Response Planned session focused on creating community-specific postvention response plans.

Audience: Professionals and community leaders who would be involved in developing or implementing protocols and/or responsible for responding to a suicide death that impacts the community.

Location: Live onsite at a location of the host’s choosing.

Format: Interactive case scenarios, discussions, and practical activities to help participants collaborate across systems and develop tailored plans.

Pre-Training Consultation: Connect staff will work with your organization to incorporate local needs and cultural context into the training.

Consultation Services: Consultation Services are available as an add-on service. After participating in Postvention Training, organizations often seek expert guidance as they begin to implement postvention strategies, protocols, or response plans.

Training Features

Early Warning Signs: Learn to recognize warning signs of suicide risk in individuals and communities.

Effective Intervention: Gain strategies for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them to necessary resources.

Postvention Response: Discover how to reduce the risk of contagion and address the complexities of grief following a suicide. Learn to promote healing through safe messaging, community resources, and effective response planning.

Collaboration: Work with other community members and professionals to develop coordinated, community-specific postvention plans.

Cultural Sensitivity: Learn how to adapt the training to reflect cultural differences and local resources.

Empower Your Community with Connect Postvention Training

Whether you’re a mental health provider, community leader, or member of a service organization, Connect Postvention Training equips you with the tools to support those impacted by suicide, reduce future risk, and foster community healing. For more information, please contact us!

What Connect Postvention Training Offers

Connect’s Postvention Training goes beyond simply offering information—it fosters relationship building and the exchange of resources among participants. Before the training, NAMI NH Connect staff consult with the host organization to tailor the program to meet your unique needs, ensuring that local cultural and contextual factors are integrated and that it resonates with your audiences. This ensures that the training is both relevant and impactful. 

Participants will learn to respond to suicide deaths in a coordinated, compassionate manner while also promoting healing within their community. The training incorporates a public health approach and aligns with National Suicide Prevention Strategy protocols, addressing everything from prevention and intervention to postvention and community healing. 

What Participants Will Learn

National Best Practices: Understand key protocols for mental health and substance abuse providers in responding to a suicide.

 

Effective Community Response: Learn how to integrate an effective community response to a suicide death.

 

Emergency Response: Gain knowledge on responding to suicides that occur on agency property or within the community.

 

Risk of Suicide Contagion: Learn strategies for preventing contagion, including guidance on memorial services, media response, and safe messaging.

 

Warning Signs: Recognize the signs of suicide risk in clients or community members after a suicide.

 

Impact on Professionals: Learn strategies to manage the personal and professional challenges that arise when suicide impacts your work environment.

 

Suicide-Related Grief: Address the complexities of suicide-related grief, including cultural considerations.

 

Help-Seeking and Stigma Reduction: Learn to encourage help-seeking behaviors and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and suicide.

 

Legal and Ethical Considerations: Discuss agency protocols, confidentiality, and the legal issues surrounding a client suicide, including psychological autopsies.

Connect Suicide Postvention Training

Connect Postvention Training: Supporting Communities After a Suicide  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 to respond effectively to a suicide or sudden death, helping to support healing while reducing future risk of additional deaths by suicide.  Postvention is not just a response, but an essential part of suicide prevention. Given that knowing someone who has died by suicide is a significant risk factor, postvention plays a critical role in reducing suicide rates and promoting long-term wellness. 

Training Details

Duration: 1-day (6 hours + breaks)

Optional: 2nd day available for Facilitated Postvention Response Planned session focused on creating community-specific postvention response plans.

Audience: Professionals and community leaders who would be involved in developing or implementing protocols and/or responsible for responding to a suicide death that impacts the community.

Location: Live onsite at a location of the host’s choosing.

Format: Interactive case scenarios, discussions, and practical activities to help participants collaborate across systems and develop tailored plans.

Pre-Training Consultation: Connect staff will work with your organization to incorporate local needs and cultural context into the training.

Consultation Services: Consultation Services are available as an add-on service. After participating in Postvention Training, organizations often seek expert guidance as they begin to implement postvention strategies, protocols, or response plans.

Training Features

Early Warning Signs: Learn to recognize warning signs of suicide risk in individuals and communities.

Effective Intervention: Gain strategies for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them to necessary resources.

Postvention Response: Discover how to reduce the risk of contagion and address the complexities of grief following a suicide. Learn to promote healing through safe messaging, community resources, and effective response planning.

Collaboration: Work with other community members and professionals to develop coordinated, community-specific postvention plans.

Cultural Sensitivity: Learn how to adapt the training to reflect cultural differences and local resources.

Empower Your Community with Connect Postvention Training

Whether you’re a mental health provider, community leader, or member of a service organization, Connect Postvention Training equips you with the tools to support those impacted by suicide, reduce future risk, and foster community healing. For more information, please contact us!

What Connect Postvention Training Offers

Connect’s Postvention Training goes beyond simply offering information—it fosters relationship building and the exchange of resources among participants. Before the training, NAMI NH Connect staff consult with the host organization to tailor the program to meet your unique needs, ensuring that local cultural and contextual factors are integrated and that it resonates with your audiences. This ensures that the training is both relevant and impactful. 

Participants will learn to respond to suicide deaths in a coordinated, compassionate manner while also promoting healing within their community. The training incorporates a public health approach and aligns with National Suicide Prevention Strategy protocols, addressing everything from prevention and intervention to postvention and community healing. 

What Participants Will Learn

National Best Practices: Understand key protocols for mental health and substance abuse providers in responding to a suicide.

 

Effective Community Response: Learn how to integrate an effective community response to a suicide death.

 

Emergency Response: Gain knowledge on responding to suicides that occur on agency property or within the community.

 

Risk of Suicide Contagion: Learn strategies for preventing contagion, including guidance on memorial services, media response, and safe messaging.

 

Warning Signs: Recognize the signs of suicide risk in clients or community members after a suicide.

 

Impact on Professionals: Learn strategies to manage the personal and professional challenges that arise when suicide impacts your work environment.

 

Suicide-Related Grief: Address the complexities of suicide-related grief, including cultural considerations.

 

Help-Seeking and Stigma Reduction: Learn to encourage help-seeking behaviors and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and suicide.

 

Legal and Ethical Considerations: Discuss agency protocols, confidentiality, and the legal issues surrounding a client suicide, including psychological autopsies.

Facilitated Prevention/Intervention or Postvention Response Planning

The Facilitated Prevention/Intervention or Postvention Response Planning Session is designed to help your organization or community build a coordinated, actionable plan that addresses suicide prevention and postvention needs. This session, available as an add-on to the 1-day training or the 3-day Train-the-Trainer package, brings together key stakeholders who play a role in prevention efforts or responding to suicide deaths. 

Develop a Tailored, Actionable Plan:

In collaboration with a Connect trainer/consultant, participants will create a clear, practical, and community-specific plan for responding to suicides or for implementing suicide prevention initiatives. This ensures your organization has a roadmap to follow when a crisis occurs, or to proactively implement suicide prevention efforts. 

Engage Key Stakeholders:

The session brings together the right people – those directly involved in prevention or response efforts – ensuring that your organization has cross-functional collaboration and buy-in from those who will be responsible for executing the plan. This collaborative approach helps strengthen relationships across sectors and fosters a more cohesive, community-driven response to suicide.

Promote Long-Term Sustainability:

By developing a clear, actionable plan with the help of experts, your organization can ensure that suicide prevention and postvention efforts are sustainable, aligned with local needs, and responsive to emerging challenges over time.

By investing in this facilitated planning session, your organization ensures it is prepared to not only respond effectively in the event of a suicide but to proactively prevent future tragedies. This service empowers your team with the tools and resources needed to make a lasting impact on suicide prevention efforts and postvention responses within your community or organization. 

Ensure a Coordinated Response:

By developing a postvention response plan, your organization will be prepared to respond compassionately and effectively to the impact of a suicide, minimizing harm and supporting healing for those affected. For prevention initiatives, your organization will be equipped to implement strategies that reduce suicide risk, support mental health, and strengthen protective factors within the community.

Access Expert Guidance:

Connect trainers and consultants bring specialized expertise to the session, offering insights based on best practices and years of experience. This ensures that your response plan incorporates proven strategies and remains aligned with national standards for suicide prevention and postvention. 

Access Expert Guidance:

Connect trainers and consultants bring specialized expertise to the session, offering insights based on best practices and years of experience. This ensures that your response plan incorporates proven strategies and remains aligned with national standards for suicide prevention and postvention.

Increase Community Readiness:

Facilitated planning enhances your organization’s preparedness by helping stakeholders understand their roles and how they can work together to address suicide prevention and postvention needs effectively.

Session Details:

Train-the-Trainer Packages in Suicide Prevention or Postvention

The Facilitated Prevention/Intervention or Postvention Response Planning Session is designed to help your organization or community build a coordinated, actionable plan that addresses suicide prevention and postvention needs. This session, available as an add-on to the 1-day training or the 3-day Train-the-Trainer package, brings together key stakeholders who play a role in prevention efforts or responding to suicide deaths. 

Develop a Tailored, Actionable Plan:

In collaboration with a Connect trainer/consultant, participants will create a clear, practical, and community-specific plan for responding to suicides or for implementing suicide prevention initiatives. This ensures your organization has a roadmap to follow when a crisis occurs, or to proactively implement suicide prevention efforts. 

Engage Key Stakeholders:

The session brings together the right people – those directly involved in prevention or response efforts – ensuring that your organization has cross-functional collaboration and buy-in from those who will be responsible for executing the plan. This collaborative approach helps strengthen relationships across sectors and fosters a more cohesive, community-driven response to suicide.

Promote Long-Term Sustainability:

By developing a clear, actionable plan with the help of experts, your organization can ensure that suicide prevention and postvention efforts are sustainable, aligned with local needs, and responsive to emerging challenges over time.

By investing in this facilitated planning session, your organization ensures it is prepared to not only respond effectively in the event of a suicide but to proactively prevent future tragedies. This service empowers your team with the tools and resources needed to make a lasting impact on suicide prevention efforts and postvention responses within your community or organization. 

Ensure a Coordinated Response:

By developing a postvention response plan, your organization will be prepared to respond compassionately and effectively to the impact of a suicide, minimizing harm and supporting healing for those affected. For prevention initiatives, your organization will be equipped to implement strategies that reduce suicide risk, support mental health, and strengthen protective factors within the community.

Access Expert Guidance:

Connect trainers and consultants bring specialized expertise to the session, offering insights based on best practices and years of experience. This ensures that your response plan incorporates proven strategies and remains aligned with national standards for suicide prevention and postvention. 

Access Expert Guidance:

Connect trainers and consultants bring specialized expertise to the session, offering insights based on best practices and years of experience. This ensures that your response plan incorporates proven strategies and remains aligned with national standards for suicide prevention and postvention.

Increase Community Readiness:

Facilitated planning enhances your organization’s preparedness by helping stakeholders understand their roles and how they can work together to address suicide prevention and postvention needs effectively.

Session Details:

Connect Youth Leader Training

The Connect Youth Leader program engages a core group of high school students, in partnership with trained adults, to co-facilitate the Connect Youth Leader curriculum for other teens and school community members. Youth leaders learn to co-present the Connect training through activities and rehearsals, while Connect staff observe, interact, and provide coaching. 

Day One

For: up to 30 school staff including a max 
of 15 adults who will be co-leading with youth.


Length:
Full day (6 hours). Talk with the 
Connect team if the length of time for Day 1 
is a barrier to staff participation.

Training includes:

Training Details

Duration: 2 days

 

Audience: High school students who represent a cross-section of the community’s youth culture.

 

Location: Your community

Day Two​

For: up to 30 students + up to 15 adults 
who will be co-leaders with youth.

Connect Suicide Prevention Training for Young Adults

Young people entering adulthood are at increasing risk for mental health conditions, substance misuse and suicide. The Connect Suicide Prevention program addresses these concerns by educating and empowering young adults to learn about the challenges they face and about the effective options and resources to maintain a healthy and safe lifestyle.

What participants will learn:

Connect Young Adult

Length: 2 days

 

Audience: Young adults ages 18 to 25.

 

Location: Your community or live online training.

After the completion of this training, participants will be able to:

Survivor Voices

SurvivorVoices is a National Best Practice program that teaches those bereaved by suicide how to speak safely and effectively about their loss. Survivors of suicide loss are key partners in suicide prevention and postvention. No one is more passionate about preventing further suicides and letting other survivors know they are not alone. 

Stories of suicide loss told from the heart are powerful. They promote healing for those who are bereaved, educate the public about how to support survivors of suicide loss, and increase awareness of suicide risk factors and warning signs. 

While some individuals who are trained by SurvivorVoices may never share their story publicly, participation in the training helps them with their own grief process and connects them with other survivors. For those who go on to share their stories publicly, they often use this new connectedness to energizes suicide prevention and bereavement support efforts (e.g. starting a survivor of suicide loss support group, hosting a teleconference site, starting a Life Keeper quilt project, initiating a suicide awareness event). 

Occasionally, NAMI New Hampshire receives grant funding that allows our organization to make this training available to anyone interested at no cost. If your organization would like to host a SurvivorVoices training for members of your community, please contact us for pricing.  

Specialized Training Series

The Connect Specialized Training Series offers focused, shorter-duration workshops and trainings that dive deep into specific topics within suicide prevention and postvention. Unlike our standard 6-hour training, these sessions are designed to provide targeted insights and practical strategies on particular aspects of suicide prevention, such as supporting high-risk populations 
or responding effectively after a suicide loss.

These trainings are perfect for professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in specific areas, and address unique challenges within their roles and communities. With a more concise format, participants gain valuable, actionable knowledge that they can immediately apply to their work, helping them better serve individuals and communities impacted by suicide.

Workshops are available on the following topics:

Foundational Training Series

The Connect Foundational Training Series offers introductory workshops and presentations 
that provide a broad understanding of suicide prevention, postvention, and mental health and wellness. These sessions are shorter in length than our standard 6-hour training and are ideal 
for participants seeking basic knowledge on these important topics.

Aimed at a wide audience, including individuals from various industries such as education, healthcare, and community organizations, the Foundational Training Series offers valuable insights that can be applied in both personal and professional settings. Whether you’re looking 
to build awareness or enhance your understanding of these critical issues, this series provides essential tools to help create a supportive and informed environment for suicide prevention 
and mental health care.

Workshops and presentations are available on the following topics:

Costs vary for these trainings, and depend on factors like training format, number of participants, location, materials, and customization needs. Contact us for pricing information via our Contact Us form or by emailing info@theconnectprogram.org.

The NAMI NH Connect Team welcomes the opportunity to use our expertise and experience to develop new trainings and presentations to meet the needs of diverse audiences. Contact us if you have an unmet training need and we will assess whether we can meet the challenge.

Consultation Services

Connect offers expert guidance to organizations and communities responding to a suicide loss or implementing suicide prevention strategies. Our consultation services help develop postvention response plans and ensure organizations are prepared to respond effectively and compassionately when a suicide occurs. Whether responding to a recent loss or planning for the future, we provide tailored support to foster healing, resilience, and minimize the risk of further harm.

We also offer ongoing support to Connect Trainers, ensuring they have the resources and guidance they need to effectively deliver training to diverse audiences.

Our consultation services cover:

Consultation hours can be included in contracts or billed on an as-needed basis.

Connect staff are also available for conferences, presentations, and keynotes on specialized
topics. For more information or to inquire about consultation services, please contact us at info@theconnectprogram.org or complete the Contact Form.

eLearning

Expand Your Knowledge. Save Lives.

 

Explore NAMI New Hampshire’s Self-Paced, Online Mental Health 
& Suicide Prevention Courses

NAMI New Hampshire offers a powerful eLearning platform designed to make critical mental health and suicide prevention training more accessible than ever.

Our self-paced, online courses are tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of audiences—including community members, healthcare and mental health providers, business professionals, social service providers, and school personnel.

Whether you’re seeking continuing education (CE) credits, enhancing your professional skills, or simply looking to better support those around you, our platform offers flexible, high-quality training you can complete on your own schedule.

Why Choose NAMI NH’s eLearning Platform?

Courses can be purchased individually or by organizations. For businesses or groups interested in buying multiple seats at a discounted rate, please reach out directly—bulk purchases are handled outside the platform.

Start learning today and help create a safer, more supportive community.

Experience in Meeting the Needs of Diverse Audiences

The Connect Program has nearly two decades of experience adapting to the cultural needs of diverse communities and audiences. To date, Connect Training has been delivered to more than 50 Native American tribes, Alaska Native regions, and the Pacific Islands of Hawaii, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands. Cultural elements are infused into the process and content depending 
on where the training is being delivered.

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