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Approved Jason Flatt Suicide Trainings
Wyoming Legislature, requires teachers and school administrators, a minimum of eight hours of suicide prevention training every four years for Wyoming school districts. During the initial school year of employment, if the teacher or an administrator has not had prior suicide prevention training, they shall receive two hours of training.
Our suicide regulation and our district strategic plan state that all staff will receive annual professional development in compliance with Jason Flatt Act. The district has invested in providing one QPR instructor in each building to meet the regulation and the strategic plan.
5277-R Suicide Prevention: Staff Professional Development: All staff will receive annual professional development on risk factors, warning signs, protective factors, reporting procedures, and resources regarding youth suicide prevention.
Strategic Plan Monitor Document: 4.4 Provide annual suicide awareness and prevention training for all staff.
4.6 Provide a certified Question Persuade-Refer (QPR) instructor in all schools.
Student Support Services has equipped each trainer with annual training materials to refresh their staff on QPR every year, ensuring compliance with the regulation and alignment with the strategic plan.
**Certified staff who began employment in Fall 2025 need to have their 8 hours completed by SPRING 2029.
The following is a list of WDE approved, suicide prevention trainings recommended for Campbell County School District personnel.
Completion of training/CERTIFICATES must be uploaded to the Professional Learning (PL).
District PD Offerings:
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer - The 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.
1-hr course and 3-hr courses are available at various times throughout the year, please refer to the course offerings in PL.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. This course and course materials are valued at $170. Thanks to the Mental Health Grants, all course materials are paid for.
6-hr course is available at various times throughout the year, please refer to the course offerings in PL.
OTHER Approved Jason Flatt Trainings
Any other course offered through the district that meets the Jason Flatt requirements will state such in the course description.
**All classes taken directly from CCSD that require registration through professional learning will automatically award both Jason Flatt hours AND PD hours within the system.
Tier 1
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful or traumatic events, including abuse and neglect. They may also include household dysfunction such as witnessing domestic violence or growing up with family members who have substance use disorders. ACEs are strongly related to the development and prevalence of a wide range of health problems throughout a person’s lifespan, including those associated with substance misuse. You can contact Kitti Gutierrez at 307-660-0669 for training information.
This training is available online, free of charge and is self-paced. There are two hour modules as well as 1 hour. Participants will receive a certificate of completion for each module completed. This training is recommended for all district staff.
Recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and connecting people to help and support. Its a 90-minute online training.
There are two versions of this free, online, self-paced training; one that is identified as the National training and one that was developed for South Dakota educators. CCSD educators should complete the training that is identified as National. Upon completion of this 2 hour training participants will receive a certificate of completion. This training is recommended for all district staff.
SafeTALK is a half-day training program that teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. SafeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The program recommends that an ASIST-trained resource or other community support
resource be at all trainings. The ‘safe’ of safeTALK stands for ‘suicide alertness for everyone’. The ‘TALK’ letters stand for the practice actions that one does to help those with thoughts of suicide: Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe. To find a workshop in Gillette contact the Campbell County Prevention Council.
National or statewide conferences as approved by the district.
Tier 2
This workshop is available free of charge through the Campbell County Prevention Council. ASIST is two-day workshop, worth 15 contact hours. The Campbell County Suicide Prevention Coalition hosts an ASIST workshop 2-3 times a year. To find a workshop in Gillette contact the Campbell County Prevention Council.
Educators wishing to attend an ASIST workshop would most often require a substitute teacher; therefore, administrator approval is needed for an educator to participate in this workshop during the school year. This training is a more advanced suicide intervention workshop, recommended for counselors, school nurses and administrators, but teachers wanting advanced suicide intervention training would find it highly beneficial.
Program teaches people to recognize the warning signs of mental illness, substance abuse, and other risk factors that lead to suicide, intervene and connect a person at risk for suicide and resources. Understand the topics related to suicide and suicide prevention, including attitudes toward suicide and the effects of stigma, national suicide data, individual and community risk and protective factors, reducing access to lethal means, safe messaging, and the influence of electronic media. 2-4 hours: Self-paced over 15 days-available online.
If you have questions, regarding the hours and round you are currently in please contact Jessica Diaz at 307-687-4565.
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