Idaho Suicide Prevention Healthcare & Behavioral Healthcare Training Scholarships

Healthcare and behavioral health clinicians in Idaho play a vital role helping build resilient individuals and communities that support the prevention of suicide. Idaho currently has one of the highest rates of suicide per capita in the country. Evidence demonstrates that, "overall, 64 percent of patients made some type of healthcare visit within a month before attempting suicide, 38 percent of patients within a week, and nearly 95 percent within a year."* Often patients facing suicidality present in healthcare settings with alternate medical concerns and complaints. These visits provide the clinician with the perfect opportunity to screen for suicide risk and intervene appropriately. Further, clients seen in behavioral health settings may not voluntarily share complaints for suicidality. Clinicians need specific knowledge and skills for suicide practices of care that identify risk, safeguard, and manage suicidality. In an effort to help improve suicide care in the state, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Suicide Prevention Program is currently awarding educational scholarships to individual clinicians in Idaho invested in reducing suicide rates in their region. SafeSide Prevention: SafeSide Prevention for medical, behavioral health, or youth facing professionals is an in-place or online, interactive suicide prevention training. This training is offered in three, 50-minute modules which may be scheduled all at once or broken into three or six segments, week over week for completion. SafeSide Prevention gives providers knowledge and competencies they can easily transfer to their practice and community. SafeSide Prevention also provides one year of follow-up office hours and a Community of Practice from around the globe. CEUs and CMEs are available. If you need assistance with this application or have questions, don't hesitate to contact SPP@dhw.idaho.gov or call 208-334-4953. * Ahmedani, et al. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health Care Visits Made Before Suicide Attempt Across the United States, MED CARE 53, Issue 5, 430-435 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000000335 AND Ahmedani, et al. Health Care Contacts in the Year Before Suicide Death, J GEN INTERN MED 29, 870–877 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-014-2767-3.

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