Participating in a training is an excellent way to take a proactive approach to the wellness of not only yourself, but also your community.
Suicide Prevention Trainings
Suicide prevention trainings are an excellent way to ensure you have the knowledge to identify and respond to individuals who may be experiencing a crisis. Trainings are available for students, faculty, and staff.
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Training
QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention is a 1 hour educational program designed to teach lay and professional “gatekeepers” the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond. Gatekeepers can include anyone who is strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide (e.g., parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, coaches, caseworkers, police officers). The process follows three steps: (1) Question the individual’s desire or intent regarding suicide, (2) Persuade the person to seek and accept help, and (3) Refer the person to appropriate resources. Trainees receive a QPR booklet and wallet card as a review and resource tool that includes local referral resources.
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To Sign up for a training as an individual – select the second option on this form.
Cyclone Support Training
Cyclone Support Training is for Faculty/Staff or student leaders at ISU to learn skills in helping identify potential wellbeing issues affecting students and connecting students to resources for support. This training is intended to meet the public health goal of reducing harm and negative consequences from various wellbeing issues that students experience while in college.
The training covers three components of an evidence-based public health strategy:
- ASK – quickly assesses the severity of issue(s) and identifies the appropriate options for referral.
- EVOKE – focuses on increasing insight and awareness regarding issue and motivation toward behavioral change or utilization of resources.
- REFER – provides those identified as needing assistance with connections to resources.
The training helps staff learn how to embed these skills into their work to support students.
Training is interactive with role model and role play exercises.
Participate in a Green Dot Training
Green Dot trainings provide the foundation for participants to become active bystanders and to engage in violence prevention through their everyday actions and behaviors. The purpose of Green Dot is to provide theory-driven understanding and practical skills that empower ISU to collectively assert that interpersonal, power-based violence has no place on our campus. Participants leave Green Dot trainings with a clear sense of their part in sustaining this message
Green Dot trainings are offered in three different stages based on your history with the Green Dot program.
Green Flags Trainings
Green Flags consent education workshops share tools for promoting a culture of sexual respect at ISU through a combination of lecture, group activities, and individual reflection. Participants learn how consent is connected to well-being, how to practice consent across different kinds of relationships, and how to build green zones where consent is normalized. Green Flags workshops work together with Green Dot bystander intervention trainings to teach a wide variety of skills for building a campus where everyone belongs.