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.

October 15 at 2pm EST

with Paul Quinnett, PhD and President and CEO of The QPR Institute

Contact us for access!

What is new?
For organizations wishing to utilize the new QPR Online Gatekeeper Training program, as hosted on our server and offered directly from the QPR Institute, we would like to extend a complimentary online Gatekeeper training experience to any currently Certified QPR Instructor. To receive your free training, simply email Brian at bquinn@turbonet.com or call at 208.882.6160 and request access codes. Once you have taken the training, if you are interested in how the online program can be customized for your organization or community and how our new Learning Management System for Gatekeeper training can collect and analyze survey data and other evaluation data, just ask Brian for a free demonstration.

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.

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