In this issue: brief news items.
Eastern Washington University has launched the EWU-QPR online courses in suicide risk assessment for several levels of professionals and students preparing for the helping professions. College credit and CEU’s are available. This is a very exciting development, as this partnership will enable us to deliver suicide prevention training anywhere in the world. Instructors and students are being recruited. Click here for news release.	Suicide prevention works! For review of the news-making U.S. Air Force 6-year study, click here (pdf) for a brief review from Preventing Suicide: the National Journal.
	News! Our hospital-based suicide risk reduction program has recently been installed at the Wisconsin Resource Center in Winnebago, Wisconsin.
The recent FDA recommendation that antidepressant medications should carry warning labels (e.g., increased suicidality) triggered a response that, perhaps, the warning label should be put on the practitioners, not the pill (click here for the Institute’s response).	In response to several requests, a position and theory paper entitled QPR for Communities is available on the web site (click here)
News! Among several universities adopting the QPR Gatekeeper training program, two made it to NCAA division one basketball championships. Congratulations to Eastern Washington University, the University of Kentucky, Southern Connecticut State University and Texas A & M!	QPR Keeps Growing! More than 150 new Certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructors have been trained since January and at least another 300 will be trained by the end of 2004. As best as we can determine, roughly 6,000 citizen Gatekeepers are being trained per month.
News! In the first six months of 2004 more than 600 mental health and substance abuse treatment professionals in Utah, Kentucky, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Idaho have been trained in suicide risk assessment using the QPRT Suicide Risk Management Inventory©. This is also the training program now offered through the EWU-QPR partnership.	The QPR Institute's National Training Director, Brian Quinnett, presented a paper on depression and suicide among college student-athletes at the National Consortium of Student Athletes. This organization is sponsored by the NCAA and several professional sports teams. The NCAA has expressed interest in developing a mental health awareness and Gatekeeper training program. Click here for more information.
Research The NIMH-funded clinical trials of QPR are continuing and entering thier year of data collection. The University of Rochester and the University of South Florida are providing highly qualified research direction and leadership. As the first random clinical trial of any Gatekeeper training program (of which we are aware), this is an extremely important study with significant implications for future suicide prevention programming.
The free e-book French edition of Suicide; the Forever Decision is now available from the web site (click here). We are working to find translators for both Spanish and Chinese versions, as well as other languages. All versions will be made available free as e-books throughout the world. If you know of anyone interested in translating the 3rd edition of this book into other languages, we would like to hear from them.