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Suicide Prevention Course

What will I learn?

Improve how you talk to people and help your community with our How to Stop People From Killing Themselves Course, made for people who work in communication. You'll learn how to check on someone's mental health, know what makes someone likely to harm themselves, and build strong relationships. You'll also learn how to make plans to help people in crisis, find resources, and keep them safe. Become good at understanding people's feelings, listening carefully, and not judging them. Understand the laws about this and how to write down what you find. Get the skills to help and save lives in your community.

Apoia's Unique Features

Online and lifetime access to courses
Certificate aligned with educational standards
PDF summaries for easy printing
Online support available at all times
Select and arrange the chapters you want to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet required

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Checking on someone's mental health: Learn how to ask the right questions and see who is at risk.

Making plans to help in a crisis: Create ways to keep people safe and help them cope.

Improving how you talk to people: Practice understanding feelings, listening carefully, and not judging.

Figuring out who is at risk of suicide: Learn about the laws, what's right and wrong, and how to write things down.

Building groups of helpers: Find groups in the community that can help and add them to your plans.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.