Services
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.
Self-Care
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.
Empower Your Community with Connect Postvention Training
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.
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.
