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Course Description: Participants explore the features, symptoms, and risk factors of compassion fatigue, along with self-awareness exercises and self-care strategies as key components for prevention.

Course Objectives:

• Define compassion fatigue.
• Understand the difference between compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.
• Understand the difference between burnout and secondary trauma as features of compassion fatigue.
• Identify symptoms and risk factors of compassion fatigue.
• Utilize various self-awareness exercises to identify one’s risk of developing compassion fatigue.

Identify and understand how to apply the ABC’s of preventing compassion fatigue (awareness, balance, connections) and key components of self-care (physical, psychological, behavioral).

Course Description: Customized workshop designed to meet the needs of participants. Sample topics:

• Anger Management
• Motivational Interviewing
• Personality Disorders
• PTSD
• Verbal De-escalation
• Wellness

SOS Suicide Prevention

SOS Suicide Prevention Program is a universal, school-based, depression-awareness and suicide-prevention program aimed at middle schools and high schools.

Course Objectives:

• Train staff to recognize the warning signs of suicide.
• Train staff to facilitate one-hour classroom-based SOS training.
• Increase students’ awareness of the signs and symptoms of depression.
• Equip students to self-refer and refer friends for additional mental health support.
• Increase parents’ awareness of signs and symptoms of depression, and risk factors for suicide.

Course Description: Suicide prevention course that teaches participants how to help someone who may be considering suicide.

Course Objectives:

• Recognize the common causes, risk factors and warning signs of suicide.
• Understand the common myths and facts surrounding suicidal behavior.
• Question a person about suicide.
• Persuade a suicidal person to get help.
• Refer a suicidal person to the appropriate resources.

Modules:
Adult | Youth | Public Safety | Older Adults | Veterans | Higher Education

Description of Course:
Just as CPR helps you to assist an individual having a heart attack — even if you have no clinical training — Mental Health First Aid helps you to assist someone experiencing a mental health-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid Course, you will learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. You will learn how to apply the Mental Health First Aid action plan in a variety of situations, including when someone is experiencing:

• Panic attacks
• Suicidal thoughts or behavior
• Non-suicidal self-injury
• Acute psychosis (e.g., hallucination or delusions)
• Overdose or withdrawal from alcohol or drug use
• Reaction to a traumatic event