Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR)
QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for suicide prevention is a 1-2 hour program designed to teach individuals the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond. You will learn how to question the individual’s desire or intent regarding suicide, persuade the person to seek or accept help, and refer the person to appropriate resources.
Delivery: In-Person, Virtual, or Asynchronous
Audience: Everyone, age 16+
Training Time: 60-minutes to 2-hours
Goals: QPR consists of three life-saving skills - the first is recognizing the warning signs of suicide, the second is offering hope, and the third is helping and saving a life
This training was developed by QPR Institute. To learn more about QPR - Click Here.
QPR Online Gatekeeper Training
This asynchronous Gatekeeper course is taught in a clear, concise format using the latest in educational technology and practices. The course takes approximately one hour to complete.
KEY COMPONENTS COVERED IN TRAINING:
How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
How to get help for yourself or learn more about preventing suicide
The common causes of suicidal behavior
The warning signs of suicide
How to get help for someone in crisis
The Speedy Foundation has been able to provide asynchronous QPR to over 3,500 individuals across the world at NO COST thanks to the generosity and support of our donors. To take our complimentary, asynchronous QPR - Click Here
What is QPR Training?
THREE STEPS ANYONE CAN LEARN TO HELP PREVENT SUICIDE.
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer – 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying, "Yes" to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. QPR can be learned in our Gatekeeper course in as little as ninety minutes.
Who needs to know QPR?
Suicidal thoughts are common. Suicidal acts, threats and attempts are less common, but much more frequent than most people realize. Suicide is the most common psychiatric emergency and the 10th leading cause of death in America. Suicidal thinking, feeling and behavior are not rare. For example: If you are a middle-aged or older adult, you probably know someone who has made a suicide attempt. You may even have known someone who completed suicide and it is very likely you know someone who has, or is, thinking about suicide.
If you are a professional caregiver, police officer, fireman, minister, priest, rabbi, school nurse, coach, youth leader, paramedic, high school counselor, case manager, volunteer or paid staff in any of a hundred different kinds of human service organizations, you will very likely have firsthand contact with suicidal people. Since it is impossible for family doctors, counselors and mental health professionals to know everyone who needs help, the answer to the question: Who needs to know QPR? Everyone
In a little over one hour, you can become a “Gatekeeper.”
According to the Surgeon General’s National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (2001), a gatekeeper is someone in a position to recognize a crisis and the warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide. Gatekeepers include parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office supervisors, squad leaders, foremen, police officers, advisors, caseworkers, firefighters, and many others who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.
As a QPR-trained Gatekeeper you will learn:
You may be the person in the best possible position to prevent suicide, you will find that QPR is designed to help you help someone who may be considering suicide. QPR consists of three life-saving skills - the first is recognizing the warning signs of suicide, the second is offering hope, and the third is helping and saving a life.