A Strategic Planning Approach to Suicide Prevention
April 16, 2014 5.50 Hour(s)

Sponsored By
Ocean County Health Department

http://www.ochd.org

Ocean County - Online

John Rogers
732-341-9700
732-831-6480
jrogers@ochd.org

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Public Health CE #14878: 5.50 hour(s)

Many public health professionals are called on to develop or expand a suicide prevention program at the state or local level. They want their program to have maximum impact, even with minimal resources. A Strategic Planning Approach to Suicide Prevention can help identify activities that will be effective in addressing the problem of suicide in a community and can prioritize efforts among the various possibilities. This course uses three fictional task forces to illustrate the approach “in action.”

You will need to create an account with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center before you can begin taking these programs,
http://training.sprc.org/course/description.php#course7

These programs also offer CHES credits, which can be obtained through NCHEC.

To receive credit, please submit a copy of your certificate to:

Ocean County Health Department
175 Sunset Avenue, PO Box 2191
Toms River, NJ 08754
Attn: John Rogers

Or send a PDF version to jrogers@ochd.org

•Describe the suicide problem and its context.
•Choose long-term goals for a suicide prevention program.
•Identify key risk and protective factors on which to focus.
•Select or develop interventions that will decrease or increase these risk and protective factors.
•Plan an evaluation.
•Implement the interventions and the evaluation.
•Take further action based upon the evaluation and changes in the context in which the prevention program is implemented.

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