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 Addressing Suicidal Ideation and Behavior in Substance Abuse Treatment & Prevention is a two-hour suicide prevention gatekeeper training appropriate for all community members. This training offers you a customized version of the evidence-based “Question, Persuade, Refer” (QPR) suicide prevention training and will:

• enhances each participants’ awareness of their values, attitude and beliefs regarding suicide,

• provides general suicide awareness information,

• illuminates the connection between substance abuse and suicide,

• presents the risk and protective factors and warning signs of suicide, and

• offers a non-confrontational but effective means for engaging actively suicidal persons.

Implementing TIP 50 for Administrators is a 1.5 hour training regarding how to implement SAMHSA’s “TIP 50: Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Substance Abuse Treatment” for program administrators, middle management and supervisors. While the TIP 50 is a best-practice guideline for working with clients with suicidal ideation and behavior in a substance abuse treatment setting, the model can be applied to a variety of agency settings. It conveys both evidence-based and “front-line” information regarding how to work to effectively work with suicidal clients, protecting them, as well as other clients, your staff, and your agency. Each participant will receive a copy of the TIP 50 and supportive documents. It focuses both on providing appropriate counseling methods and administrative support of these methods. It is hoped the participants of this training will also attend the above mentioned suicide prevention training.

The training sessions will take place at:

SkyRidge Medical Center
2305 Chambliss Avenue NW
Cleveland, TN 37311

Click on the link to the right of training session to register. You must register for both the suicide prevention training and the TIP 50 training separately.  

Suicide Prevention 1:00 -3:00 p.m.  EST   http://june13cleveland1.eventbrite.com

TIP 50 Training     3:15 - 4:45 p.m. EST   http://june13cleveland1.eventbrite.com

If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please contact Tanya Southerland, Executive Director, GRAAB Coalition, at tanyasoutherland@charter.net or (423) 472-5800, or Tim Tatum, Director of Behavioral Health, SkyRidge Medical Center, tim_tatum@chs.net or (423) 339-4351.