Training for Individuals & Small Groups
Connect Training equips individuals and small groups with the skills and knowledge needed to both prevent suicide and respond effectively in the aftermath of a suicide or sudden death. Utilizing a public health approach and key elements from the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, Connect offers a unique, holistic model that addresses the full spectrum of suicide-related challenges—from prevention and intervention to postvention and community healing. More than just educational, Connect fosters relationship-building and resource sharing among participants.
Connect trainings and workshops teach participants how to recognize early warning signs, intervene effectively with people at risk, and connect them to critical resources.
How Individuals & Small Groups
Benefit from Connect Training
- Practical Skills for Immediate Use: Gain concrete, actionable skills to intervene with individuals at risk of suicide, ensuring that you can make a meaningful difference in critical situations. Gain a better understanding of how to offer support to those who have experienced a suicide loss and may be experiencing risk themselves. Recognize how safe messaging can help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health.
- Customized Learning: The training can be adapted to small groups and tailored to specific community needs, making it directly relevant to your work, organization, or community context.
- Enhanced Confidence: Learn how to approach sensitive topics with confidence and compassion, reducing the fear and uncertainty that can come with addressing suicidal ideation or suicide loss.
- Collaborative Approach: By learning alongside other professionals or community members, you will expand your network and strengthen your ability to work collaboratively across sectors to build a comprehensive safety net.
- Ongoing Support: Connect training fosters relationships among participants, creating opportunities for continued collaboration and resource exchange long after the training concludes.
- Sustainability and Empowerment: Through Train-the-Trainer options, individuals and small groups can take on leadership roles within their own communities, empowering them to continue suicide prevention efforts over the long term.
Upcoming Trainings Allowing Individual Registrations
- NAMI New Hampshire will be hosting training events for individual registrants starting in 2025. Check back here for more information. Events will be posted when registration opens. Registration will be available at https://learn.naminh.org/.
- All courses on NAMI New Hampshire’s eLearning platform are available to individual learners. Check out the course menu and enroll at https://learn.naminh.org/.
Recommended Training Options
for Individuals and Small Groups:
- Suicide Prevention eLearning Courses
- Standard Connect Suicide Prevention Training (6 hours)
- Foundational Training Series
- Specialized Training Series
Visit the Services page for more information on the recommended training an service options.
Small Groups Trained in Connect
Hear About the Connect Experience
Going through this training, your own personal stigma about talking about suicide diminishes or goes away completely. It was such a taboo subject growing up. I have come to learn that through education about this health issue we can all become a part of the solution.
I had a chance to meet with the team following last week's training and I believe that it will have a long-lasting, meaningful impact on all of us, and the people we engage with in our professional and personal lives. The training was delivered so naturally and kept everyone engaged. It was truly a gift you gave us all.
I really enjoyed the immersive learning experience and information that I learned. I can apply it in various ways.
The Connect Trainer did a beautiful job covering a great deal of content in an efficient and effective way and engaging the audience via remote format.
Training for Individuals & Small Groups 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.
