Reach Out: Suicide awareness and education
Reach Out aims to increase awareness, provide educational opportunities, and encourage open dialogue about the topic of suicide. Reach Out gives the UCalgary campus community the tools to support students in distress through robust, accessible, evidence-based suicide intervention training programs.
Training
Through Reach Out training programs, the UCalgary campus community can play a vital role in suicide prevention by increasing our ability to recognize and respond to those experiencing thoughts of suicide.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
Learn to recognize and and review risk of suicide, and how to intervene.
LivingWorks Start Suicide Prevention Training
LivingWorks Start is a powerful online training program that teaches life-saving skills to recognize and prevent suicide. This is an online, self-guided training program that is open to the UCalgary community at any time.
Below are upcoming Start Dialogue sessions for those who have completed the online LivingWorks Start Online Suicide Intervention Training.
Question, Persuade, Refer
Learn to recognize and support someone who may have thoughts of suicide.
SafeTALK
SafeTALK is a 3.5 hour training program that teaches how to recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and connect them to an intervention provider.
Reach out is supported by the UCalgary Suicide Awareness and Prevention Framework and we gratefully acknowledge additional funding from Quality Money through the Students Union.