Suicide Prevention Training (QPR)

overview

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.

Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

QPR can be learned in our Gatekeeper course in as little as one hour. In this course you will:

• Learn how to recognize the warning signs of suicide
• Know how to offer hope
• Know how to get help and save a life

According to the Surgeon General’s National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (2001), a gatekeeper is someone in a position to recognize a crisis and the warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide. 

Gatekeepers can be anyone, but include parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office supervisors, squad leaders, foremen, police officers, advisors, caseworkers, firefighters, and many others who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.

Target Audience
Because of the nature of suicidal warning signs, and who is most likely to recognize and respond to them, the QPR Institute strongly concurs with the goal of one in four persons trained a basic gatekeeper role for suicide prevention in the United States and in other countries. Because suicides happen in families – where emergency interventions are more likely to take place — they believe that at least one person per family unit should be trained in QPR.

Time Investment
Classes last about 90 minutes and are limited to 20 people per course.

Course Price
Free to Employees and the Public