Suicide Prevention
Build the confidence to recognize suicide risk and respond in a timely, appropriate way.
CTI's Suicide Prevention workshop is designed for service providers who work with individuals who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide. The course focuses on recognizing risk and making timely, appropriate interventions using a strength-based approach.
Participants examine beliefs and language around suicide, learn practical intervention skills, practise asking directly about suicide, strengthen empathic listening and develop safety-planning skills through structured role play.
Strengthen knowledge, self-awareness and practical intervention skills.
CTI's course combines reflection, knowledge-building and hands-on intervention practice.
Challenge Myths About Suicide
Examine common misconceptions and build a more accurate understanding of suicide and suicide risk.
Explore Personal Beliefs
Reflect on personal beliefs, assumptions and language that may influence how suicide is understood and discussed.
Recognize Possible Suicide Risk
Increase self-awareness and skill in noticing signs that someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide.
Use Practical Prevention Techniques
Build knowledge of practical suicide-prevention and intervention approaches that can be used in service settings.
Listen With Empathy
Develop communication skills that support open, non-judgmental conversations about distress and suicide.
Intervene With Greater Confidence
Practise making appropriate and timely interventions when you are concerned that someone may be at risk.
A structured two-day progression from understanding to intervention and safety planning.
The workshop is organized into four modules that progressively build participant knowledge and practical skill.
Module 1 — Understanding Suicide
Explore language and beliefs, suicide in communities, statistics, myths and risk factors that shape understanding of suicide.
Module 2 — Suicide Intervention
Review signs of concern, practise asking about suicide, listen with empathy and explore ambivalence through role play.
Module 3 — Safety Planning
Review when to get additional help, recap intervention skills and practise creating a suicide safety plan through role play.
Module 4 — Large Group Role Play
Bring the course together through a larger role-play exercise that reinforces recognition, intervention and safety-planning skills.
Move from concern to supportive action.
Participants practise the kinds of conversations and decisions that can feel difficult in real-life suicide-prevention situations.
Two-Day, Role-Play-Based Learning
CTI's Suicide Prevention workshop is delivered over two days. Role play is integrated across the intervention and safety-planning modules so participants can practise asking about suicide, listening with empathy and responding in a structured, supportive way.
Build suicide-prevention capacity across your staff team.
This workshop can support service providers, community organizations, social-service teams, healthcare settings and other workplaces where staff may encounter individuals experiencing thoughts of suicide.
CTI provides organizational training and can work with teams to align training with their staff roles, service environment and professional-development needs.
Frequently Asked Questions About Suicide Prevention Training
Learn more about CTI's Suicide Prevention training, including course duration, learning modules, role play, safety planning, practical intervention skills, and organizational training options.
What is Suicide Prevention training?
CTI's Suicide Prevention workshop is designed for service providers who work with individuals who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide. The course focuses on recognizing risk, responding with empathy, making timely interventions and using a strength-based approach.
How long is the Suicide Prevention workshop?
The workshop is delivered over two days and is organized into four learning modules.
What are the four learning modules?
The four modules cover Understanding Suicide, Suicide Intervention, Safety Planning and Large Group Role Play.
What will participants learn?
Participants learn to challenge myths about suicide, explore personal beliefs, recognize when someone may be experiencing thoughts of suicide, use practical prevention techniques, listen with empathy and make timely interventions.
Does the course include role play?
Yes. Role play is built throughout the workshop, including asking about suicide, listening with empathy, safety planning and a large-group role play module.
Does the training include safety planning?
Yes. One of the four modules focuses on when to get additional help and how to develop a suicide safety plan.
Is the workshop practical or theory-based?
It includes both. Participants learn foundational concepts, risk factors and beliefs about suicide, while also practising intervention and safety-planning skills through role play.
Can Suicide Prevention training be delivered to organizations?
Yes. CTI provides organizational training and can work with teams to deliver suicide-prevention training aligned with their staff needs and service environments.