Partnering with American Indians and Alaska Natives in Suicide Response

• CONNECT encourages collaboration among key stakeholders to form a common vision and comprehensive approach
   
• Based on the public health model
   
• Uses a holistic, socio/ecological approach that looks a suicide in the context of the individual, family, clan, tribe and society
   
• Trains across service systems
   
• Offers best practice protocols for specific disciplines
   
• Ensures long-term sustainability by the incorporation/adaptation of its protocols into service provider operations and tribal practices
   
• Builds on the existing strengths of American Indian/Alaska Native communities
   
• Flexibility to customize its training for cultural effectiveness Read more...

Connect Training Programs

Prevention/Intervention Training in early recognition and intervention skills for responding to attempts, thoughts, and treats of suicide.  Read more…

Postvention  A proactive planning tool to promote healing and reduce risk after a suicide or any sudden death. Read more…

SurvivorVoices: a Talking Circle about Suicide Loss Training/supporting survivors of suicide loss to share their story.  Read more…