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NCSPT is proud to
work in collaboration with the
June 2007 Workshop 4 in the NCSPT series, “The research
evidence for suicide as a preventable public health problem”
is now available online! Please go to our new training web site
located at http://training.sprc.org
to register! February 2007 Workshops have a new look with Moodle! Workshops 1,2, and 3 have been revamped using a new software called Moodle. Participants should find the new workshops easier to navigate and more fun to use! Go to http://training.sprc.org to check them out! Remember, NCSPT has partnered with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center which is why you will see their name on this site! Enjoy the new workshops and keep staying tuned for new ones coming soon! October 2006 Workshop 4 Delay Development of Workshop 4, "Making the Case for Suicide Preventability" is ongoing but has encountered some delays along the way due to changes in the workshop content and its objectives. We are committed to rolling out this next workshop in our series and doing pilot testing as soon as possible. Future updates will be posted here. In the meantime, if you have any questions about our next workshop and how you can participate please email Deb at dstone@hsph.harvard.edu. Thank your for your continued interest in suicide prevention! January 2005 Workshop 4 is Coming in 2005! Happy New Year to everyone! Apologies for the long delay in communication since August. Indeed work is still going on and lots of changes are happening. NCSPT has undergone some minor reorganization since teaming with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) in June (See June's What's New message below). In September, NCSPT's main office moved from the Education Development Center in Newton, MA to the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. The Boston office is working on completing development of workshop 4 so that it can be pilot tested in Spring 05. A satellite office located at the SPRC in Newton is working to transfer online Workshops 1, 2, and 3 over to a new platform that is more user friendly. Watch for a re-release of these workshops in the coming months. In the meantime, registration is still available using the existing platform. Please go to the workshops page for more information. Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks! Until then be safe and enjoy the new year. August 2, 2004 New workshops in the making! NCSPT has recently been awarded funds to develop two
additional workshops. The first workshop, the fourth in the series,
will be called Prevention Works: Making the Case for the
Preventability of Suicide. The workshop will highlight
the research evidence underpinning the claim that suicide is a preventable
public health problem. It will prepare students to speak more authoritatively
and convincingly to the media, the public, and policy makers on
the preventability of youth suicide. More information to follow... June 21, 2004 NCSPT to team-up with SPRC! NCSPT has completed its 3-year contract with the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA). During this time, more than 1,300 people from across the United States and in several countries participated in three online workshops. In order to continue the workshop series, NCSPT is working collaboratively with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), based at the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) in Newton, MA. As of June 2004, NCSPT workshops will be administered by SPRC and any additional workshops will be created in partnership with them. For more information on SPRC, please go to: http://www.sprc.org. April 27, 2004 Update on Future NCSPT Workshops Coming Soon! Stay tuned in May or June for an update on the availability of future workshops. At this time, only three workshops have been funded. NCSPT Presentation at the American Association for Suicidology Annual Meeting, Miami Florida Results from NCSPT's two and a half years offering online suicide prevention training workshops were presented at the AAS annual meeting in April. NCSPT Project Director, Deb Stone made the presentation and had the opportunity to meet many of the participants of the workshops face to face. The presentation can be viewed by clicking on the link in the upper right corner called, NCSPT workshop results, April 2004. NCSPT Workshop Results, April 2004 Update on Continuing Education Units Currently only social workers and health educators are approved to receive credits for NCSPT workshops. We apologize to everyone else looking to receive credits. February 13, 2004 Registration for the latest online course is now available, "Youth Suicide Prevention: An Introduction to Gatekeeping." Pilot testing is now done and we are currently making final revisions to the workshop. To find out more about it and to register please go to: http://training.sprc.org/ The workshop will begin in March and lasts for 4 weeks. During this time participants will be able to communicate with the co-facilitators of the workshop, Lloyd Potter and Deb Stone as well as other workshop participants from around the country. After this 4-week session, the workshop will no longer include interaction with the facilitators or other participants. Please email debstone@edc if you have questions. Hope to see you! An update on continuing education units: Continuing education credits are not currently available for Workshop 1: "Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide data." Credits for social workers and health educators are available for Workshop 2: "Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention." Credits for Workshop 3, "Youth Suicide Prevention: An Introduction to Gatekeeping" will become available for social workers and health educators in the next several months. Email debstone@edc.org with questions. January 29, 2004 NCSPT Reports its Progress NCSPT is currently applying for funding to continue its workshop series. As part of the application, a report was creating charting its progress. To view the report, click on the link below. http://www.ncspt.org/courses/NCSPT%20progress%20report.pdf December 12, 2003 Pilot testing for Workshop 3 to begin January 13, 2004- Register Now! NCSPT's third workshop, Youth Suicide Prevention: Introduction to Gatekeeping is slated to begin pilot testing on January 13, 2004. This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in youth suicide prevention. The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to gatekeeping as a means of youth suicide prevention and intervention. Please note that this is not actual gatekeeper training but instead meant to inform participants about this popular suicide prevention intervention. For more information please go to: To register for the pilot test, please go to: http://training.sprc.org/ Pilot registration will be limited to 40 participants. October 20, 2003 Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention Workshop Update The five-week workshop ended on Friday, October 17th and is currently being evaluated. Anyone who did not complete the workshop yet or who would like to sign up is welcome to do so. To learn more about online workshops, click here: http://training.sprc.org/ To register for this workshop, proceed to the registration page at: http://training.sprc.org/ September 3, 2003 Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention Workshop Registration Open! NCSPT is proud to announce the availability of its second online workshop, "Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention." This workshop is designed for state and local health officials, mental health providers, community-based coalition members, and other interested individuals involved is planning and evaluation for youth suicide prevention. The goal of the workshop is to: Describe an informed state planning process for suicide prevention which includes ongoing decision-making, action, evaluation, and revision. The workshop begins September 15, 2003 and will last for 5 weeks. After this initial 5-weeek period, registration will be available on an ongoing basis. A facilitated version of the workshop, designed for individuals who wish to benefit from contact with other workshop participants and our expert facilitator, Lloyd Potter, is available. The self-paced version, is the same as the facilitated version but does not provide an opportunity for feedback or contact with other workshop participants. Participation in the facilitated version is limited to 50 people. The self-paced version is unlimited. To learn more about online workshops, click here: http://training.sprc.org/ To register for this workshop, proceed to the registration page at: http://training.sprc.org/ Registration closes on September 12, 2003. August 2003- Pilot test completed & Revisions in the works! Thanks to everyone who participated in the pilot of Workshop 2, Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention. Based on evaluations of the workshop, revisions are currently being made and plans for broad implementation are under way. Look for the next opportunity to register coming soon!! July 2003- Pilot Test Up and Running The pilot test for NCSPT's second online workshop, Planning and Evaluation for Youth Suicide Prevention is now up and running with approximately 40 testers. We wish to thank all those who are currently participating and everyone who wished to participate but was turned away. We hope to get workshop 2 out the door to all those interested by early Fall. Stay tuned!! June 2003- Important Suicide Prevention Resource STIPDA Releases Consensus Recommendations for Using Hospital Discharge Data for Injury Surveillance The State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) has released a set of recommendations to improve state-based injury surveillance, entitled Consensus Recommendations for Using Hospital Discharge Data for Injury Surveillance. This report includes recommendations from a working group aimed at increasing state injury prevention programs’ capacity to use statewide hospital discharge data for injury surveillance. These standards and recommendations are a critical step towards
a framework for comparing injury-related risk behaviors, injury
morbidity, and injury mortality by selected demographic factors
and by mechanism and intent of injury within and across states.
Implementation of these recommendations will help improve the usefulness
of data for planning injury prevention efforts and facilitating
collaboration between state injury prevention programs. For copies
of the report, visit the STIPDA website at
http://www.stipda.org/. Workshop 1, discusses prior STIPDA recommendations and other data sources. For more information go to http://training.sprc.org/. April 21, 2003 Workshop 2, Program Planning and Evaluation for Suicide Prevention, coming soon! Workshop 1 is on a roll Registration for workshop 1, "Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data is now available on a rolling basis. Please go to the workshops page and find the link at the bottom to register. March 21, 2003 Workshop 1 Rerun! Workshop 1 is set to start again on Monday, March 24, 2003. After this second run through, we will keep workshop 1 open and will take registrations on an ongoing basis. March 6, 2003 Updates on Workshop 1 The first run-through of workshop 1 will be complete Friday, March 7th. We encourage all participants to please complete the post-test and evaluation so that we can send out certificates and begin improving on the workshop. If you would like to sign up for the second run-through of workshop 1, you can sign up now by going to http://training.sprc.org/. The workshop will officially begin on March 24th. Please note that only the self-paced version will be available for the second run of the workshop. The facilitated version will not be open. If you have questions please complete the comment/feedback form. Thanks! January 28, 2003 Workshop 1 will be closed to new participants for 8 weeks. Please check back in March for how to take part in the self-paced version's second run. Thanks for your interest! January 27, 2003 Workshop 1, "Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data" off to a great start! Thanks to everyone who signed up for this workshop. The response has been much larger than expected with 350 people signed up for the self-paced version of the workshop and 24 signed up for the facilitated version. We are very excited about this start and hope that all the participants find the material useful in their suicide prevention work. Continuing education credits were approved just in time for physicians, social workers, counselors, health educators, and psychologists! Stay tuned for updates on workshop 1 and for more opportunities to join in! January 20, 2003 Workshop 1, "Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data" Co-Sponsored by the American Association for Suicidology is set to begin in January 27, 2003. Free! Continuing Education Credits Available! There's still a few days left to register for NCSPT's debut workshop starting on Monday, January 27th. The workshop is set to run for 6-weeks. During this time, participants you will log on to the course web site, read, and complete short activities. While the facilitated version is full, there are still spots available in the self-paced version. The self-paced version is exactly the same as the facilitated version, but there are no interactive exercises with the other workshop participants or the facilitator. If you participate, you will need to set aside at least two hours each week to complete the entire workshop in the allotted 6 week time period. As part of the workshop, we ask that each participant complete a pre-test, a post-test, and an evaluation. This will help us to develop future workshops that meet your needs. To register please go to the workshops page and select the link at the bottom of the page. Continuing education credits are available for both versions of the workshop for Social Workers, Health Educators, Psychologists, and Psychiatrists. Credits from the National Board of Certified Counselors bave been applied for. Thanks and hope to see you online! December 10, 2002 Workshop 1, "Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data" Co-Sponsored by the American Association for Suicidology is set to begin in January 2003. The first step in addressing any public health problem is to access and examine data to help describe and understand the extent and nature of the problem. This workshop will introduce some of the important issues in accessing and analyzing suicide-related data, which can be used to educate the public, policy makers, and advocates about the problem of youth suicide. We will review how to obtain suicide data and translate it into useful formats for different audiences. If you are interested in participating or if you would like more information click here http://training.sprc.org/. This workshop is open to anyone involved in suicide prevention. CEU's have been applied for. November 13, 2002 Pilot test of Workshop 1- Locating, Understanding, and Presenting Youth Suicide Data, Completed Pilot testing for the first NCSPT workshop ended in October with a final conference call with pilot participants held the first week in November. Overall, the workshop was well received and found to be very useful. Revisions to the workshop will take place from now until the end of the year with nationwide access beginning in early 2003. A registration page will be posted shortly. In the meantime, if you are interested in participating in the facilitated or self-paced version of workshop one, please complete the contact/feedback form. Thanks and stay tuned! Thanks to all who participated in the pilot!! Great job! October 2002 National Suicide Prevention Resource Center Funded! The Education Development Center (EDC), the home of the National Center for Suicide Prevention Training, recently won a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to fund the new National Suicide Prevention Resource Center (NSPRC). The award totals $2.5 million annually over three years and will allow the resource center to provide communities with information and technical assistance on implementing suicide-prevention programs. EDC will collaborate with the American
Association of Suicidology, the American October 16, 2002 Workshop 2 in development: Workshop 2 in NCSPT's three workshop series is currently in development. This workshop will provide practical information on comprehensive suicide prevention planning and evaluation and will give participants the opportunity to review real state suicide prevention plans. Hands-on learning will also be a large part of workshop 2 for those people in the facilitated version. The self-paced version will not include interaction with a facilitator or other participants. Workshop 2 will be pilot tested in late winter. As always, we will be looking for volunteers to help pilot the workshop. Please complete the contact/feedback form if you are interested in helping out. Thanks! Update on workshop 1: The facilitated version of the workshop 1 pilot test (Locating, Understanding, and Presenting youth suicide data) is slated to end October 18, 2002. The pilot of the self-paced version will also be ending shortly. After participants complete their post-test evaluations, NCSPT will work to make suggested revisions to the content of the workshop. Workshop 1 will be made widely available in both its facilitated and self-paced forms beginning in January 2003. Please look for future requests for participation on this web page. If you would like to sign up for either version please complete the contact/feedback form. Thanks! September 23, 2002 Pilot testing of NCSPT Workshop 1 underway Pilot testing for NCSPT's first workshop began September 9, 2002 with a group of 15 participants from the Northeast and around the country. Workshop 1 teaches participants to identify, interpret, and present youth suicide data for the purpose of broadening support for suicide prevention programs and policies. Workshop participants are asked to read and respond to material using online technology including discussion with other participants and workshop facilitator, Lloyd Potter, PhD, MPH of EDC. The pilot test will last for six weeks at which time post-test results will be completed and compared to the pre-test. The evaluation and feedback from participants will show how effective the workshop was at teaching participants about locating, understanding, and presenting youth suicide data. Feedback will help NCSPT staff to revise the workshop before it goes national in early 2003. Pilot testing of the self-paced version of workshop 1 begins September
30, 2002. This version of the workshop is the same as the facilitated
version but does not include any interaction among workshop participants. NCSPT Guest, Susan Rose Blauner- Success at EDC Brown Bag HOW I STAYED ALIVE Blauner, a survivor of multiple suicidal gestures, began experiencing suicidal thoughts at age fourteen. She discussed her struggle with feelings and fantasies surrounding suicide with a group of EDC staff and area prevention practitioners on August 21, 2002. One participant stated, "I appreciated Susan's candor and it was insightful to hear from a survivor of several suicide attempts." A quilt of Massachusetts residents who have died by suicide was displayed during Ms. Blauner's talk and served as a sober reminder of the losses experienced by the local community. Blauner is author of the book she never found during her search for understanding. For more information, go to howistayedalive.com July 17, 2002 Update on web site accessibility With help from professionals at Editing and Design Services, the Education Development Center's Internet Technology experts, and colleagues at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, NCSPT has worked to improve the accessibility (usability) of its web site and resource database. Changes include, highlighted buttons to indicate which page a user is currently on and formatting changes to the resource database. If you have comments or suggestions please contact us. Thanks to all those who provided assistance. June 28, 2002 Maternal and Child Health Bureau Convenes Grantees of Distance Learning: Improved distance learning techniques and ideas for accessibility On June 26th and June 27th, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), in conjunction with the Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP) convened a meeting of the grantees of distance learning, in Boston. A representative of NCSPT attended this meeting and presented its work to the group. The meeting was very helpful and provided good ideas for distance learning approaches. Another outcome of the meeting was a recommendation to make sure distance learning is accessible to all people with regard to differing physical abilities. NCSPT will be reviewing its website and workshop materials this summer to ensure equal accessbility for all. Stay tuned for details. Review of Workshop 1: On June 20th members of the Northeast Injury Prevention Network (NEIPN), a regional group of State Injury Prevention Directors, and representatives from Northeastern states' suicide prevention planning teams convened for a training on suicide prevention. The training was sponsored by Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) with funding from CDC. Part of the training included a review of preliminary work done on NCSPT workshop 1. The group provided very useful information and suggestions for workshop improvement. NCSPT thanks this group and looks forward to pilot testing workshop 1 this Fall. Stay tuned for more updates about the workshop series this Summer! May 28, 2002 Visit the new resource database!! The new NCSPT resource database is a comprehensive collection of suicide prevention and other related materials. The database contain websites, articles, training manuals and more. The entire database can be viewed in several formats: by author, title, keyword, and format. You can find more detailed information on a particular item, including how to access it by clicking on the title in the database. The database will be updated on an ongoing basis so please check
back from time to time. Also, feel free to provide an item to add
just by completing the contact/feedback
form. Other feedback is also welcome at any time. Thanks and
enjoy! May 20, 2002 The NCSPT calendar web page has been updated. If you have a national event to highlight please contact us. May 13, 2002 NCSPT is currently working on the content development for the first workshop, "Using data to educate the public and policy makers about youth suicide." This workshop will be presented on June 20, 2002 to members of the Northeast Injury Prevention Network (NEIPN) and representatives from their respective state suicide prevention planning groups. The group will have the opportunity to try out the new workshop and to provide feedback and suggestions for its improvement. Pilot testing for Workshop 1 is slated for early Fall 2002. The resource database and workshop evaluation are also in development Stay tuned for future updates to be posted here weekly.
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