Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention 2 Day Course

Location: 100 E Dove Rd

Join us for a hands-on workshop focused on Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention. Learn valuable skills and techniques to provide support and guidance during challenging times. This in-person event will feature interactive sessions led by experienced professionals. Whether you're a caregiver, friend, or community member, this event is designed to equip you with the tools needed to help those in need. Don't miss this opportunity to make a difference!

Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention - taught by Chaplain Fran Graham

Course Description:
Why do people K*ll themselves? How do I ask someone if they are feeling suicidal? What do I do if they say they ARE suicidal? How do I deal with the strong emotions suicide generates? This course will provide answers for these and other questions many of crisis interventionists have about suicide. It will provide participants with basic information about suicide as well as help participants develop practical skills for prevention, intervention and postvention. Small group role plays will allow participants to apply the suggested techniques as they are learned.

This course is open to anyone who wishes to learn more about intervening across the suicide spectrum. Professionals from the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress may all benefit.

Program Highlights:

• Common myths about suicide
• · Risk factors for suicidal behavior
• · Frequent motivations for suicide
• · Problem solving methods
• · Effective intervention strategies
• · Elements of effective postvention
• · Elements of survivor grief
• · Community referral sources
• · “Mini-lecture” on suicide
• · Feelings and reactions of suicide survivors

Fran Graham has extensive crisis management experience in her home country of England, the United States, and internationally in both crisis deployments and crisis management instruction. With an extensive background in Law Enforcement, Community Emergency Response Training, International Disaster Relief, Fire and Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, and the medical field, she provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise that she uses to support those in crisis and psychological trauma.

Fran has worked in several nations as an interventionist, educator, and consultant for both governmental and non-government agencies, to establish emotional health intervention support systems in times of war, refugee crises and following natural disasters. She serves individuals, groups, crisis response teams and communities, and has trained and deployed with multijurisdictional Critical Incident Stress management (CISM) and Peer Support teams with public fire & law enforcement agencies and faith-based chaplaincy programs, for whom she was a key author for written policies and operations guidelines which have been used nationally. She also works with multiple fire and police agencies, hospitals, and corporations in the United States as a consultant, instructor, and team member, to implement strategies of resilience to trauma for first responders actively working in the field.

As a published author and well-respected instructor in her field, she trains others to provide critical incident stress management support, emotional and spiritual care, to anyone in need. She has led emotional trauma specialist and disaster response teams through large- and small-scale crisis deployments such as the Oso & Montecito mudslides, Hurricane Sandy, and the Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting, and more recently, the war crisis in Ukraine. She also serves key government leaders in Europe who are actively seeking ways to rebuild the mental and emotional health following the huge influx of refugees. Her unyielding faith and passion has and will continue to guide our fellow human beings to acknowledge, manage, and process the serious and unforeseen impacts of crisis and trauma.

Fran’s command presence is eloquent, and profoundly personal that resembles a soulful conversation with a wise friend, even when she is speaking to communities, governments or teaching international courses. Her unending strength and faith to guide those in crisis is nothing short of inspiring. Fran's passion is to bring comfort amid deep pain, and to equip others with the necessary skills to recognize the signs and symptoms of their own acute stress or trauma. She empowers them to take responsibility for themselves, by implementing excellent, holistic, and proven, personal, self-care habits, to aid healing. Her extensive experience provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise that she uses to support those in crisis and psychological trauma on a path of resilience to ensure living and thriving, not just existing.

Host or Publisher Kayleigh Oliver