The University of Alabama’s Counseling Center is hosting and sponsoring a number of training activities and events during UA’s Suicide Awareness Week Oct. 2-8.
The Counseling Center will be offering eight QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention sessions at the Ferguson Center. QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer, three steps anyone can learn to help prevent suicide. Just like CPR, QPR is an emergency response to someone in crisis and can save lives. QPR is the most widely taught gatekeeper training program in the United States, and more than one million adults have been trained in classroom settings in more than 48 states.
The Counseling Center will also offer sessions on its Suicide Prevention Training Program, Ask Listen Refer. The training program was designed to help faculty, staff and students identify people at risk for suicide; recognize the risk factors, protective factors and warning signs of suicide; and respond to and get help for people at risk.
Also, several mindful meditation sessions will be offered throughout the week.
All training sessions need to have reservations through Tix.
In addition to these events, UA’s Counseling Center is partnering with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to present the eighth annual Out of the Darkness Tuscaloosa Community Walk on Oct. 8 at the Ferguson Center Plaza. Check-in and on-site registration begins at 1 p.m. with the walk starting at 2 p.m. Online registration deadline is noon Oct. 6. For more information or to register, visit Tuscaloosa Community Walk.
For more information about the week’s events, visit https://counseling.sa.ua.edu/counseling/suicide-prevention/suicide-awareness-week/.
[ua_backgrounds color=”dark”]
Oct. 2
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 10-11 a.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Mindfulness Meditation — Ferguson Center, Room 3104, 2-3 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 5-6 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Oct. 3
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 104, 10-11 a.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Mindfulness Meditation — Ferguson Center, Room 3104, 3-4 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 4-5 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 5:30-7 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Oct. 4
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 2-3:30 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 104, 4-5 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 5:30-7 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Oct. 5
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 9-10 a.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Mindfulness Meditation — Ferguson Center, Room 3104, 2-3 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 3-4:30 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 104, 5-6 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center, Room 2200C, 5:30-7 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Oct. 6
QPR Gatekeeper Training — Ferguson Center Forum, Room 3700, 12-1:30 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
Ask Listen Refer Training — Gorgas Library, Room 204F, 2-3 p.m. (reserve tickets @ Tix)
[/ua_backgrounds]