Trainings
LOSS Community Services has volunteers trained and prepared to share their story and/or present prevention and postvention presentations to a wide variety of audiences. We have presented to mental health professionals, workplaces, faith communities, funeral homes, chaplains, and more.
LOSS Community Services offers a multitude of trainings to cater to your specific needs. Please review the options below, then fill out our form and select the training that you are interested in.
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Prevention Trainings
Question, Persuade, & Refer
Question, Persuade, and Refer are 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide. Participants will learn how to intervene with an individual at-risk, persuade them to get help, and guide them to the appropriate resources.
This is a 90-minute training
CALM
Counseling on Access to Lethal Means is designed for mental health professionals to implement counseling strategies to help clients at risk for suicide and their families reduce access to lethal means, particularly, but not exclusively, firearms.
This is a 3-hour training
ConvoCALM
Conversations on Access to Lethal Means is a suicide prevention training that encourages safe storage of lethal means during a suicidal crisis. By temporarily putting time and distance between a suicidal person and highly lethal means, a life may be saved.
This is a 90-minute training
Postvention Trainings
Uniqueness of Suicide Grief
Odds are that you will interact with someone who has been touched by suicide loss at some point, whether personally, professionally, or in conversation with a stranger. It is common for people to feel unsure of what to say or do in these situations. This training identifies the unique aspects of losing someone to suicide and recommendations for supporting the bereaved, with consideration for the body’s response to trauma. Even if you have experience working with the newly bereaved, this is an opportunity to expand your skillset through the perspective of suicide loss survivors.
This is a 1-hour training
Grief at Work
Grief is a simultaneously universal and unique experience, yet we generally tend to avoid the topic whenever possible. This training will go over some of the nuances of grief and trauma, with a specific emphasis on how grief shows up in the workplace and how we can support ourselves and others who are grieving.
This is a 1-hour training
Telling Our Stories Workshop
Stories told from the heart are powerful. They promote healing in others experiencing similar situations and increase the public’s awareness of risk factors and warning signs. A great deal of research has been done about how to talk about lived experience in a safe way that will not increase the risk for those who are vulnerable. This two-day training workshop will guide you through the process of crafting your story, preparing to speak publicly, and presenting with courage and intention.
This is a 12-hour training across 2 days
Sharing Lived Experience
This training is a condensed version of the Telling Our Stories workshop. The goal is for participants to leave this training feeling more confident in sharing their lived experience safely and effectively. Even if you do not have an interest in sharing publicly, this training can still help you reflect on your experience and craft ways to answer some of the personal questions that others tend to ask loss survivors.
This is a 3-hour training
