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Instructor Newsletter, October 2008
Hello everyone! We hope you enjoyed the summer and are looking forward to a productive and rewarding fall. There will be two fall newsletters this year, with a Winter issue to follow in January. This, the first issue, will cover a single item and report on a major, new development at the QPR Institute. The second Fall issue will cover other program developments, institute news and will include a primer in social marketing theory and practice. Suicide prevention education is not an easy sell, but we hope this mini-training effort will be useful to you. For timely news and developments in the field of suicide prevention and for those not already signed up for the SPRC weekly newsletter, we strongly recommend it (http://www.sprc.org/news/index.asp). We also strongly recommend you get on the mailing list for the SPAN USA newsletter for action alerts and other matters of importance to all our work. Join us for a free webinar,
Strategies to Help Community Providers Prevent Suicide in Veterans
on Wednesday,
October 15 at 2pm EST with Paul Quinnett, PhD and President and CEO of The QPR Institute A New Educational Partnership! We are excited to report to you that the QPR Institute has become an partner of Essential Learning. Essential Learning is the largest provider of e-learning services in the United States and serves more than 450 behavioral health and human service organizations in 46 states. This partnership has been in the works for more than a year. The partnership and our initial listing of Institute online training programs was formally announced by Essential Learning on September 10th, World Suicide Prevention Day. In a nutshell, the Institute took this action for several reasons, not the least of which includes the rapid advancement and scientific support for e-learning outcomes in education and training. Utilizing e-learning technologies will enable us train thousands of Gatekeepers a day instead of thousands a month. With $4.00 gas, online training will not only lower cost and increase learner convenience but will make suicide prevention education available in rural America where suicide rates are highest. Three other reasons compelled us to make this investment. These are:
Last, but perhaps of most importance to us, QPR Gatekeeper Online Training will be made available through behavioral health and substance abuse treatment organizations DIRECTLY to consumers and their loved ones! Though their own web sites, participating organizations will provide online QPR training to their consumers and stakeholders through what are called Community Access Sites. In a word, QPR training will soon be available to those individuals and families we all know to be at elevated risk for suicidal behaviors. Face-to-face Gatekeeper training to groups like the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and others should also increase. We consider this community-based, family-centric delivery of QPR training to be a major breakthrough in mass, public health education. What does this mean for you?
How can I participate?
What else is new? Finally, as a special benefit for Certified QPR Instructors, we have arranged a 10% discount for all of you who may need to earn continuing education credits for your licensure. Essential Learning programs are widely approved for continuing professional education. To receive your discount on training for more than 400 online courses, simply find and add the course(s) you want to your shopping cart and enter the code 'QPR08' when prompted to receive your discount. Staff and Faculty |