Education

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2024 Educational Series (free)

Eight unique programs exploring suicide loss from every angle. Presented by members of Coping After Suicide's national support group facilitator corps by Zoom and free of charge.

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Ask The Experts: Helping Our Children Cope With Suicide Loss (free)

A multi-part series of interactive conversations and open Q&A with leading experts, covering ages 2-29. Zoom recordings from past programs are available.

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Ask The Experts: LGBTQ Suicide (free)

An interactive conversation and open Q&A with one of the nation's leading experts in LGBTQ suicide. Zoom recordings from past programs are available.

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Talking OutLOUD: Teens & Suicide Loss, A Conversation (free)

An award-winning documentary featuring five members of our national Teens Group sharing their stories of loss.

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Training

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Facilitating Suicide Bereavement Support Groups for Adults

This interactive, experiential training workshop series explores best practices for facilitating warm, welcoming, and effective suicide bereavement support groups. Appropriate for both new and experienced facilitators. Offered by Zoom several times each year (Zoom recordings and course materials from past programs also available).

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Facilitating Suicide Bereavement Support Groups for Children & Teens

This interactive, experiential training workshop series is for anyone with a personal or professional interest in facilitating peer support groups for children, preteens, and teens (ages 6-18). Appropriate for both new and experienced facilitators. Offered by Zoom several times each year (Zoom recordings and course materials from past programs also available).

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Custom Programs

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Care for the Caregiver®

An interactive exploration of the impact of personal loss on professional caregivers, including clergy, funeral directors, hospice staff, support group facilitators, and others.  

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Finding Your Way Through Grief

An exploration of what it really means when "everyone grieves differently," how to find the right amount and kind of support, how narratives fit into the healing journey, and how to find some peace again.

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Key Considerations for Working with Survivors of Suicide Loss 

A psychoeducational exploration of the impact of suicide loss on individuals and families, appropriate for clinicians, clergy, funeral directors, school personnel, outreach volunteers, and interested others.

 

Nuts and Bolts of Effective Suicide Postvention Response

Previously delivered to grand rounds at regional medical centers, the US Army Chaplain Center and School, the Veterans Administration National Chaplain Training Center, the South Korean National Police Agency, and the interdisciplinary crisis response team of a large public university.​

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Suicide 101

A straight forward practical discussion about what we know from the research about suicide.

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The content, focus, and duration of any presentation can be easily customized to suit the particular interests, needs, and size of the target audience, as well as the budget of the host organization. Trainings typically combine lecture with extensive audience participation and group interactivity, and include concrete takeaway messages, relevant handouts, and carefully vetted resource information.  Contact me.