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Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Session
Knowing the risk factors and warning signs of someone who may be thinking about ending their life allows us the opportunity to take action. QPR is the acronym for Question, Persuade \& Refer, a gatekeeper suicide prevention training. The QPR training will not only teach you how to recognize someone who may be at risk, but it will also provide you with the three concrete skills to help. Like CPR, QPR is designed for everyday people to know how to help someone who is in crisis by asking the suicide question, persuading the person to stay alive and accept help and how to get them to the resources that can help. Join this short training to gain skills to help you support loved ones, friends, students, and anyone else you may come across.\nQPR is an evidence-based suicide prevention training that teaches participants:
  \n1) The warning signs and risk factors of suicide \n2) How to ask so
 meone about suicide  (Question) \n3) How to encourage them to seek sup
 port (Persuade) \n4) How to help them get the help that they need (Refer
 ) \nTo learn more about QPR please visit:https://qprinstitute.com/\nIn-p
 erson Sessions are offered in D-termfor faculty and staff only\n\nMarch 21
 , 2023 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Meets in Campus Center, Hagglund Room\n\nRegi
 stration for this free training session is REQUIRED. To register for the M
 arch 21, 10:00 am in-person session, click here or the register button bel
 ow.Meets in Campus Center, Hagglund Room.\nAfter registering, you will rec
 eive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
  and a calendar invite.\nAbout the Trainer\nSarah Gaer holds a Masters D
 egree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has 24 years experience
  in the field of mental health care. Sarah has been an outpatient cl
 inician, crisis clinician and member of trauma response teams responding t
 o homicides, suicides, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Sarah 
 was the Senior Team Leader for MassSupport Network, the FEMA funded Crisis
  Counseling Program responding to Covid19 in Massachusetts. She is a Mas
 ter Trainer for the QPR Institute and has trained over 1000 first resp
 onders in Massachusetts. Sarah recently works as a consultant in suici
 de prevention and trauma recovery and recently spearheaded long term recov
 ery efforts at Holyoke Soldier’s Home, which experienced a mass causal
 ity event during Covid-19. Sarah also holds a contract with the Massachu
 setts Department of Mental Health creating and providing training for Law 
 Enforcement on topics such as suicide prevention, toxic stress and resil
 ience building. Sarah is a National Trainer for Psychological First Aid an
 d sits on the Executive Committee for the Massachusetts Coalition for Suic
 ide Prevention.\n
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