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The State of Alaska’s Suicide Prevention unit maintains an active listserv to keep all who are working to prevent suicide within our state up-to-date with suicide prevention efforts throughout Alaska. This includes various trainings, opportunities, and partner updates. Sign up here for the
Alaska Suicide Prevention listserv to receive regular updates.
350 Main Street, Room 214
P.O. Box 110609
Juneau, Alaska 99811-0609
Feeling down or thinking of suicide?
Please know that you can
feel better about yourself
and your life.
For free, confidential help 24/7, call the Alaska Careline:
or text 4help to 839863
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Prevention partners:
The Council writes
Alaska's suicide prevention plan. See what steps you, your agency, and your community can take.
SCHOOL SUICIDE PREVENTION in Alaska
Alaska Suicide Prevention
Suicides, like motor vehicle deaths, are preventable. Collectively, we bring risk down through public policies and attitudes, infrastructure, and the timely intervention of professionals, friends, family and strangers.
The state suicide prevention program offers grants, resources and training for individuals and communities.
Community-Based Suicide Prevention Program
Alaska Postvention Project
Postvention is responding to a suicide to minimize the risk of additional attempts, and to help communities heal. Postvention happens before and after a suicide. This is similar to preparedness planning and response for natural disasters such as earthquakes or floods.
Training
Many suicide prevention trainings are available for the public and providers.
CAMs is an evidence-based, suicide focused treatment framework used to quickly reduce suicidal ideation in 6-8 sessions. Part of the Zero-suicide framework, this model can be used everywhere from emergency rooms to private practice. Training opportunities include on-demand training, role play days and consultation calls.
The CAMS-4Teens™ training is designed to provide guidance on adapting the CAMS Framework® for youth ages 12 and older. It offers updated information on the prevention of teen suicide, how to involve family members and how to work within systems of care (hospitals, schools, justice, and outpatient settings).
This course is a 3 hour On-Demand training for clinical providers and comes with 3 CEUs. Training in the CAMs Model (either the on-demand course or an educational half day) is strongly recommended, but not required.
Cost: Free! Brought to you by the State of Alaska Department of Health
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)
This interactive on-demand course presents an evidence-based, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) approach for suicide prevention. Clinicians will learn to conduct a thorough suicide risk assessment, strengthen the therapeutic relationship, conceptualize suicidal ideation, and plan treatment, develop a safety plan, and much more. Clinicians will see how to tailor treatment to their individual clients using affective, behavioral, and cognitive interventions for suicide prevention.
Cost: Free! Brought to you by the State of Alaska Department of Health
If interested in enrolling in the CAMS, CAMS4Teens, and/or CBT-SP courses, please visit
UAA Center for Human Development or contact the support team at support@aktclms.org or 907-264-6244.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST): This 2-day workshop teaches the skills to provide a suicide first-aid intervention, work with someone to develop a personalized safety plan to keep safe-for-now and connect with further help. This is an In-person skills-based workshop that is highly interactive and uses experiential learning in the form of roleplays and practice using suicide intervention skills that are evidence-based. Participants learn a 6-task suicide first-aid model through presentations, interactive discussion, and feature videos.
Cost: Free! Funding is provided by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
Contact
Wendi Shackleford to schedule one for your agency or community.
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR):
This course is designed to teach health and behavioral health professionals, as well as support staff working with individuals at risk for suicide, how to assess and manage clients or patients at all levels of suicide risk in clinical practice. The course aims to equip learners with the necessary skills to effectively identify and manage suicide risk in individuals under their care. If interested in participating in this training, please contact
Anneliese Hudson.
Zero Suicide Initiative
Zero Suicide is an evidence based framework to provide safer suicide care within healthcare settings. This framework is a priority of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and has been implemented around the globe. The Division of Behavioral Health has been working to bring this initiative to Alaska, by establishing a Statewide Zero Suicide Program Coordinator position, providing trainings to primary health and behavioral healthcare providers, as well as numerous other efforts. For additional information related to this initiative, contact
Mya Robinson.
Resources
Additional information about suicide: