PowerPoint Presentation about NCSPT

The National Center for Suicide Prevention Training (NCSPT) provides educational resources to help public officials, service providers, and community-based coalitions develop effective suicide prevention programs and policies.

The goals of the NCSPT are to:

• Provide training on suicide prevention program planning, implementation, and evaluation
• Help public health professionals understand the role they can play in preventing suicide
• Facilitate networking and communication among suicide prevention practitioners
• Support the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, as developed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Promote awareness of the problem of youth suicide and ways to address this problem

Current on-line workshops:

• Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data
• Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention
• Youth Suicide Prevention: An Introduction to Gatekeeping

Continuing education units are available for social workers and health educators only, at the present time. For more information go to: http://www.ncspt.org/info.asp.

As of June 2004, workshops are administered by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and additional workshop development done in collaboration with them. For more information about SPRC, please go to: www.sprc.org.

NCSPT is a collaboration between the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) and the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). It was established in June 2001 in direct response to identified training needs. NCSPT is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Human Resources and Services Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services.