BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:412125bf0c8d8b7375248fed635385d81100 CATEGORIES:District Event SUMMARY:Middle District Meeting - Suicide Prevention, QPR DESCRIPTION:
Saturday, June 19th, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. (Central Standard Time)
Virtual Meeting through GoToMeeting and Aspire OT
CEU Information: 2 Hour CEU, FREE for ALL TNOTA Member
s, $40 for Non-Members
Limited to 35 Par
ticipants. All cameras must remain on during the presentation.
Objectives:
About This Presentation : Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) is a suicide prevention training that will equip the everyday person with the knowledge of Signs of depress ion, How to ask someone if they are having thoughts of suicide, How to pers uade an individual to seek help, and How to refer someone to resources avai lable. You will learn what a Safety Plan looks like and how to create one.
Speaker & Biography: Will Taylor BS, NC PRSS, LADAC, currently serves as the Lifeline Peer Coordinator &am p; Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist for Tennessee contracted through the Dept. of Mental Health & Substance Abuse. Will works in his region to break stigma associated with substance abuse disorder and mental health by providing educational forums to the community by means of townhall, civ ic groups, and the faith community. Will works closely with health counsels , recovery courts, probation & parole officers to facilitate coordinati on of recovery services to those in need. He engages those seeking treatmen t and helps them navigate recovery resources. In his role as an Overdose Pr evention Specialist, Will provides Naloxone training and distribution to in dividuals at high risk of opiate overdose. Will creates access points for i ndividuals seeking recovery support by staying current with evidence based practices, treatment bed availability, and current funding sources. Will ha s 7 years of experience in the field of mental health and substance abuse s ervices. He has been a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist since 2015 on the state level and a National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist sinc e 2017. Will serves as a Youth & Adult Mental Health First Responder, a member of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network Middle TN Postvention R esponse Team, a QPR trainer, Asist trainer, Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer, a WRAP I & II facilitator, a Trauma informed approach trainer, a member of The Tennessee Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, and is a LADAC I Counselor.
This course satisfies the requirement for 2 hours of suicide prevention training required every four years (i.e. every 2 renewal cycles). This course will not be recorded due to the sensitive na ture of the topic of suicide. TNOTA offers QPR courses 4-5 times per year. Registration will be capped at 35 participants. p>