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Approved Jason Flatt Suicide Trainings
**Certified staff who began employment in Fall 2024 need to have their 8 hours completed by SPRING 2028.
The Jason Flatt Act was adopted in Wyoming in 2014, requiring suicide prevention education for teachers and administrators. The law states that eight hours of training given over four years is a minimum.
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.
Tier 1
1. Making Educators Partners in Youth Suicide
http://www.sptsusa.org/
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.
2. Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) – Student Support Services is providing this three-hour training as well as one hour free of charge through Staff Development. CCSD educators must sign up for this course in Professional Learning. Educators who attend the training through Staff Development will receive a certificate of participation indicating credit for three training hours. This training is recommended for all district staff.
3. Jason Foundation Training Modules -
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.
4. 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 Wendy Gauntner at 307-660-5120 or email her at dgauntner@gmail.com for training information.
5. Suicide Alertness for Everyone (Safe TALK)
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 https://campbellcountyprevention.org/contact/
6. Youth Mental Health First-Aid - https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-a-course/find-a-course/
Youth Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches the participant how to help someone who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge. The training helps you identify, understand and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses. This training is highly recommended for teachers and coaches, but is appropriate for interested ESP employees as well. You can sign up for available classes through Professional Learning.
7. National or statewide conferences as approved by the district.
Tier 2
8. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – 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 https://campbellcountyprevention.org/contact/
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.
9. Connect Suicide Prevention Training
https://theconnectprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Connect-Online-School-Personnel.pdf
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.
10. School Suicide Prevention Accreditation Program –
https://suicidology.org/training-accreditation/school-accreditation-program/
This training is a more advanced training, most appropriate for school counselors and/or building administrators. It is a self-study course worth 10 contact hours. Participants will receive an accreditation certificate upon completion.
Tier 3
11. QPRT Suicide Risk Detection, Assessment & Management Training Program
https://qprinstitute.com/qpr-qprt
The QPRT Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Training Program is designed to reduce mental health consumer morbidity and mortality by standardizing the detection, assessment, and management of patients at elevated risk for suicidal behaviors in all settings and across the age span. The QPRT suicide risk assessment protocols are guided clinical interviews developed through expert opinion and anchored in the scientific literature on suicide risk assessment. Protocol questions produce a standardized suicide risk assessment that includes documentation of risk and protective factors, current suicidal ideation, desire, intent, planning, past attempts and other self-report of suicide capability. Third-party input to the final risk assessment is encouraged, and the pediatric version of the program includes a family-centric interview protocol. A collaborative crisis management, monitoring, and safety plan (based on data gathered from the QPRT protocol by a trained practitioner) is integrated into the medical record and treatment and/or referral plan.
12. Recognizing & Responding to Suicide RISK (RRSR)
http://www.suicidology.org/training-accreditation/rrsr
With 90% of suicide deaths linked to an untreated or under-treated mental health condition, it is imperative that every clinician be able to accurately identify chronic and acute risk factors for suicide, reasonably formulate the level of risk, and work with confidence to create and implement an effective treatment plan.
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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