Connect is designated as a National Best Practice Program* that increases the competence and confidence of professionals and communities to respond to suicide incidents across the lifespan. This community-based approach focuses on prevention (education about early recognition), intervention (skills for responding to attempts, thoughts and threats of suicide) and postvention (promoting healing and reducing risk after a suicide).
Our training for key service providers, stakeholders and individuals promotes early recognition and intervention of mental illness, substance abuse and other conditions that increase the risk of suicide. Our community-based – i.e., town, campus, school system, faith groups or military – model improves understanding that each individual and community has unique risk and protective factors that impact suicide prevention, intervention and response.
For more information on Connect trainings, please select your area of interest from the links below or in the left hand navigation.
| Prevention/Intervention | Postvention | Specialized Training/ Consultation |
For more information on training packages, please contact: Ken Norton, Director, Connect Suicide Prevention Program, at (603) 225-5359 or knorton@naminh.org.
* This designation follows review by national experts from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) who work under contract with the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop and maintain the registry.
