THE SCIENCE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION AND MENTAL RESILIENCE TRAINING

The Science of Suicide Prevention and Mental Resilience Training. 

Designed for law enforcement and first responders.

16 Hours

• Tuesday, May 14, 2024 8AM - 5PM
• Wednesday, May 15, 2024 8AM-5PM

Training Approved by the Georgia Peace Officers Standards and Training Council (P.O.S.T)

Course Number: NCC01G

This training will teach participants how to:

• Understand themselves and others

• Assess and predcit behavior

• Mitigate thinking errors

• Control emotions

• Improve menatl health

This course is designed as a proactive approach to suicide prevention. The skills and resources taught may help save the life of a first responder. The course provides cognitive and behavioral tools necessary to sustain a first responder's mental health, build emotional resilience, and reduce the risk of suicide before a crisis point.

Training provides participants with an understanding of the psychology of fear, stress, anxiety, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that result from critical incidents or traumatic events. Training teaches ways to decrease anxiety, lower the effects of stress, and provide effective behavioral interventions that can mitigate the potential psychological impact that those events can have on first responders.

Built around the concept of a first responder's psychological self-development, the training emphasizes key psychological concepts and explains the links between them. Scenarios are designed to reflect behavioral changes and break down officers' cognitive and emotional processes and are realistic, personal, engaging, thought provoking, and challenging. The first responders examine complex situations involving day- to-day encounters with their coworkers, command staff, and family members.

BASED ON REAL LIFE SCENARIOS

The curriculum is based on four components organized into four modules:

• Module #1: Suicide-based knowledge.
• Module #2: Increase in suicide prevention awareness and attitude.
• Module #3: Mental health self-assessment and self-intervention.
• Module #4: Peer assessment and intervention of at-risk officers.

Cost: Free

On-Site Coordinator/Point of Contact: 

Major Trey Burgamy

• tburgamy@washingtoncountyga.gov

Hybrid Academy POC:

Margret Younis

• margret@hybridwbe.com
• Phone: 312.434.2783

Instructors

• Margret Younis , MSFPsy.
• Guest Speakers

Location:

Oconee Fall Line Technical College

1189 Deepstep Road Sandersville, GA 31082