QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training available this spring

Purdue’s Office of the Dean of Students will continue to offer virtual opportunities for faculty, staff and students to attend QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training sessions this spring. QPR stands for question, persuade and refer, the three steps that can assist in suicide prevention.

Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to questions, persuade and refer someone to help. During a QPR training session, instructors will present, discuss and role-play scenarios until participants feel comfortable with the material.

QPR-trained gatekeepers learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide, how to offer hope and how to get help and save a life. At the completion of the training, participants will receive a certificate.

All QPR courses will be conducted in person this spring unless health and safety protocols necessitate a change to a virtual format. Changes will be communicated to registered attendees in advance. All attendees are expected to abide by the Protect Purdue protocols in place at the time of the session.  The schedule for Purdue QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training sessions is as follows.

• Feb. 3 (Th) – 9-11 a.m. Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC), Room B091
• Feb. 18 (F) – 1-3 p.m. WALC, Room B093
• March 7 (M) – 3-5 p.m. Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239
• March 8 (Tu) – 9-11 a.m. Beering Hall, Room B222
• March 8 (Tu) – 6-8 p.m. WALC, Room B093 (students only)
• March 9 (W) – 8-10 a.m. Mechanical Engineering, Room 1052
• March 24 (Th) – 10 a.m.-noon. Nelson Hall of Food Science, Room 1215
• April 8 (F) – 9-11 a.m. Rawls Hall, Room 3058
• April 18 (M) – 2-4 p.m., Physics Building, Room 238

Registration for the sessions is available online. To learn more about the nationally recognized suicide prevention gatekeeper training program, visit its website.

For more information about QPR, contact the Office of the Dean of Students by phone, 765-494-1747, or the associate dean of students for education and advocacy, Zenephia Evans, via email.

Writer: Bella Vina, ivina@purdue.edu