Caring Contacts Training
Suicide is a leading cause of death in Washington. Our rates of suicide are higher than the national average and are at risk of increasing further as the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. Medical professionals and client-facing staff are likely to interact with individuals considering suicide. It’s critical that we/they have the knowledge and tools to intervene and help those in a suicidal crisis.
Caring Contacts training will introduce you to a simple but powerful intervention that has demonstrated it can reduce suicidal ideation, attempts, hospitalization, and deaths.
Caring Contacts is a one-hour, interactive, self-paced training course. Caring Contacts is intended for medical professionals and client-facing staff in WA state, and designed to address the public health crisis and give medical providers and client-facing staff additional tools to prevent suicide.
Click HERE to access the Caring Contacts training: https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=TDXA7XY3FCM7HLWN
Caring Contacts training will introduce you to a simple but powerful intervention that has demonstrated it can reduce suicidal ideation, attempts, hospitalization, and deaths.
Caring Contacts is a one-hour, interactive, self-paced training course. Caring Contacts is intended for medical professionals and client-facing staff in WA state, and designed to address the public health crisis and give medical providers and client-facing staff additional tools to prevent suicide.
Click HERE to access the Caring Contacts training: https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=TDXA7XY3FCM7HLWN
All Patients Safe: Firearms and Culture
Below are links to two self-paced eLearning courses hosted by All Patients Safe UW, intended for clinicians and client-facing staff. Currently available at no cost, and $25 to receive Continuing Medical Education credits, these courses are a great way to build skills in providing culturally sensitive care. Click the links below to view and complete the courses.
Targeted Interventions: Firearms, Culture & Suicide Care
This course begins in Module 1 with a review of cultural factors related to firearms ownership and use, including types of firearms and locking devices. Module 2 guides participants through frameworks to understand how firearms affect suicide risk and influence suicide care. Finally, Module 3 reviews a process for culturally informed lethal means counseling with patients who own and use firearms.
Access the course under “Registration”: https://www.apsafe.uw.edu/targeted-interventions
This course begins in Module 1 with a review of cultural factors related to firearms ownership and use, including types of firearms and locking devices. Module 2 guides participants through frameworks to understand how firearms affect suicide risk and influence suicide care. Finally, Module 3 reviews a process for culturally informed lethal means counseling with patients who own and use firearms.
Access the course under “Registration”: https://www.apsafe.uw.edu/targeted-interventions
Hope and Recovery for Everyone: Cultural Factors in Suicide Care
This course applies a framework for developing cultural competency and cultural humility in health care to suicide care. Participants will explore a clinically focused definition of culture and ways that cultural factors influence suicide risk. Two clinical tools, the DSM-V Cultural Formulation Interview and the Cultural Assessment of Risk for Suicide Screener, are then introduced to help facilitate culturally sensitive assessment and management of suicide risk.
Access the course under “Registration”: https://www.apsafe.uw.edu/hope-and-recovery
This course applies a framework for developing cultural competency and cultural humility in health care to suicide care. Participants will explore a clinically focused definition of culture and ways that cultural factors influence suicide risk. Two clinical tools, the DSM-V Cultural Formulation Interview and the Cultural Assessment of Risk for Suicide Screener, are then introduced to help facilitate culturally sensitive assessment and management of suicide risk.
Access the course under “Registration”: https://www.apsafe.uw.edu/hope-and-recovery
