Suicide Prevention Learning Opportunities

MDH Wellness Series: Session 2 “Holiday Stress and Reconnection”

The holiday season can bring both connection and chaos. Join us for an interactive wellness session focused on simple, science-based practices to help you slow down and recharge. We’ll explore three practical tools for building gratitude, being fully present in moments of joy, and treating yourself with kindness. You’ll leave with easy, everyday strategies to reduce stress and reconnect with meaning throughout the holiday season.

• Date and time: Monday, Nov. 24, Noon - 1 p.m. CST
• Registration: MDH Wellness Series: Session 2 

MDH Wellness Series: Session 3 “Recipe for Wellness”

Join MDH Mental Health and Suicide Prevention for the final session of our Wellness Series, a supportive and interactive space to reflect on wellbeing through the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. In this hands-on session, you’ll create your own “Recipe for Wellness,” blending ingredients like gratitude, movement, rest, and purpose to nourish your body, mind, and spirit through the busy season and beyond.

Date and time: Monday, Dec. 15, Noon - 1 p.m. CST

Registration: MDH Wellness Series: Session 3

Online Course: Suicide and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening and Safety Planning With Adults

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) developed this self-paced, two-hour course for clinicians seeking to increase their clinical knowledge and confidence in conducting screening and safety planning with clients at risk of both IPV and suicide. The course presents tools and strategies for screening and safety planning and provides scenarios and example clinical scripts to demonstrate ways to introduce these tools and discuss them with clients in practice. The course also includes tips on supporting the therapeutic alliance between a clinician and client in this context. Certificate of Completion Available, 1 Hour CE Available.

• Registration: Suicide and Intimate Partner Violence: Screening and Safety Planning With Adults
  
  For questions about these learning opportunities, reach out to health.suicideprev.mdh@state.mn.us.