UR Medicine’s Community Conversation on Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

Is your community facing an Opioid Use Disorder situation?

Would you like to learn more about ways you can help your community to address its needs with appropriate and correct information?

We can help facilitate such a conversation. We have a trained facilitator for this important, life-saving conversation. Please contact us.

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safeTALK

safeTALK is a half-day training in suicide alertness. It helps participants recognize a person with thoughts of suicide and connect them with resources who can help them in choosing to live. Participants don’t need any formal preparation to attend the training—anyone age 15 or older who wants to make a difference can learn the safeTALK steps. safeTALK training focuses on using the TALK steps—Tell, Ask, Listen, KeepSafe—to engage persons with thoughts of suicide and help to connect them with life-affirming resources.

Goals & Objective:

safeTALK helps participants become alert to suicide. Suicide-alert people are better prepared to connect persons with thoughts of suicide with life-affirming help. Over the course of their training, safeTALK participants will learn to:

  • Notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts may be present,

  • Recognize that invitations for help are often overlooked,

  • Move beyond the common tendency to miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide,

  • Apply the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, KeepSafe, and

  • Know community resources and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to them for further suicide-safer help.

Intended Audience: safeTALK is designed for anyone age 15 or older, including many in more formal helping roles. The steps learned in safeTALK have helped participants from all walks of life be alert to situations where suicide thoughts may be present.

Course Length: 3 hours–4 hours

Continuing Education: 3 CE credit hours are available for LMSW, LCSW, and LMHC licensees upon completion of the course.

***Important: Participants must attend and participate in the entire workshop to be eligible. Attendance will be verified.

Suicide Prevention Center of New York (SPCNY), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0384. The Suicide Prevention Center of New York (SPCNY) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0090.

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