Suicide Prevention: Pathway to Care and Postvention

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Mental Health Basics

We all have a role to play in suicide prevention. You will be better equipped to help when you understand how a Pathway to Care strategy is used as part of a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention.
Learn what you can do within a framework of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. Explore suicide as a public health problem that can be addressed with principles of postvention to promote healing and prevention.
Gain resources to be more confident in partnering and referring to fully support young people in all respects.

Your Learning Objectives

Identify three components of suicide prevention
Examine nine key strategies that form a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention
Define the referral Pathway to Care and explore how it is used to identify and connect people to support
Define suicide postvention and its importance
Describe the goals and phases of a postvention response

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Stephanie Downey is a Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Health based out of Bemidji, MN. She enjoys supporting communities to address and engage in suicide prevention efforts. Stephanie’s journey to her work in the field of suicide prevention grew from a passion to serve youth and families. Stephanie’s background and knowledge of youth mental health and substance abuse issues is rooted in a 20-year career at a residential treatment facility delivering assessment, mental health, and dual diagnosis services. Stephanie has a 13-year history of coordinating suicide prevention education, awareness, and advocacy to communities at a local level with extensive work within school systems. Since 2017 Stephanie has been working with the Minnesota Department of Health Suicide Prevention Unit. Stephanie is a certified trainer for Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR), Suicide Alertness for Everyone (safeTALK), Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM), and Connect Postvention.