SPECIAL NOTICE: Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) is now available as a live, online class!
We’ve been given the opportunity to offer one of our classes live and online – Question, Persuade & Refer (QPR) – a two hour introductory suicide prevention training.
In addition to offering essential suicide prevention training, QPR is also about listening, support and connection. As the QPR Institute wrote in a recent paper “QPR in the Time of Pandemic,” “While the QPR method was developed specifically to detect and respond to people emitting suicide warning signs, QPR has evolved into a broader tool to enhance human-to-human interactions, reduce human isolation, and improve social connectedness.”
“Right now our society needs more than just an intervention to prevent suicide…..it needs to provide a pathway to enable people everywhere in how to make positive, sustainable, social connections across the age span with anyone suffering in silence – with or without a treatable mental health problem, and whether or not they are suicidal.”
We’ve scheduled eight classes for April & May and hope you can join us. To register, go to "find a class" in the upper menu, click on the "register" button next to an available training, complete the registration form and click on the "process registration" button and you are good to go.
SPECIAL NOTICE: GTTH IS EXTENDING SUSPENDING CLASSES THROUGH MAY 3, 2020
We appreciate your interest and commitment to getting trained to help.
As you may know, Governor Kate Brown has issued Executive Order 20-12 STAY HOME, SAVES LIVES on March 23, 2020.
As a result, the Metro Tri Counties are extending the time when classes are suspended and continuing to take precautions designed to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and keep everyone as safe as possible which includes limiting non-emergency public gatherings for the time being.
We are currently suspending our trainings through May 3, 2020. We encourage you to check back in early May. It is our intention to give you as much notice as possible if we need to cancel classes beyond May 3, 2020.
Shortly, we will be announcing virtual Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) classes that will be available in mid April. We hope that you will join us for a virtual class at that time.
In the meantime, we hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. For resources, updates and other information, we encourage you to consult the Oregon Health Authority or your local County Public Health Office.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Mental Health Matters for all
If you found yourself with a friend, neighbor, co-worker, or student in the middle of a mental health or emotional crisis, would you know how to help? Do you coach young people, assist the elderly, or work with the public? What do you do after asking “Are you okay?”
With the help of skilled, qualified trainers, you can become part of a growing community of people who are getting trained to become a first aid responder to an individual having an anxiety attack, suicidal thoughts, or showing signs of depression.
