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QPR Training for Youth (Question, Persuade, & Refer)

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What is QPR?

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer -- 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.  People trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.  Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying "Yes" to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. 

This session is geared toward training our youth to become QPR trained.  This program is open to youth in grades 6-12.  This program is free but we do request that you pre-register.  The program will be presented by The Farmington Valley Health District.

In one hour, you can become a Gatekeeper

According to the Surgeon General’s National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (2001), a gatekeeper is someone in a position to recognize a crisis and the warning signs that someone may be contemplating suicide.  Gatekeepers include parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office supervisors, squad leaders, foremen, police officers, advisors, caseworkers, firefighters, and many others who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide.  This program will be geared toward training our youth in grades 6 - 12.

As a QPR-trained Gatekeeper you will learn to:




  • recognize the warning signs of suicide


  • know how to offer hope


  • know how to get help and save a life




QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer, an emergency mental health intervention for suicidal persons created by Paul Quinnett, and first described in 1995 in a number of presentations and publications by the QPR Institute.

With QPR, you will learn:




  • Early recognition of suicide warning signs. The sooner warning signs are detected and help sought, the better the outcome of a suicide crisis will be.


  • Early QPR. Asking someone about the presence of suicidal thoughts and feelings opens up a conversation that may lead to a referral for help.


  • Early intervention and referral. Referral to local resources or calling 1-800-Suicide for evaluation and possible referral is critical, as most people thinking about suicide are suffering from an undiagnosed and/or untreated mental illness or substance abuse disorder for which excellent treatments exist.  Also, the offering of hope and social and spiritual support can often avert a suicide attempt. 





QPR is a simple educational program that teaches ordinary citizens how to recognize a mental health emergency and how to get a person at risk the help they need.  It is also an action plan that can result in lives saved.  Our research and evaluations to date have shown positive results, some of which are available on this web site.

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