Connect Suicide Postvention: Reducing Risk and Promoting Healing After a Death by Suicide - October 28, 2025
Includes a Live Web Event on 10/28/2025 at 8:30 AM (EDT)
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- Learners - $60
A 6-Hour Training with Ann Duckless, MA
Virtual via Zoom | 8:30am-4:00pm
Presentation: This training will provide insights into how an agency or community can take a collaborative, comprehensive approach to responding to sudden death, including suicide, with particular attention paid to reducing the risk of contagion among youth. Participants will also learn suicide postvention protocols specifically designed for mental health and substance abuse/addiction providers and how these protocols interface with those of other community disciplines.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Apply the National Best Practices for mental health and substance use providers in responding to sudden death, including suicide;
- Describe how to increase awareness of the complexity of suicide-related grief and cultural considerations regarding suicide and sudden deaths;
- List recommendations regarding confidentiality, safe and sensitive communication, and media inquiries; and
- Describe ways to encourage help-seeking and reduce risk for contagion with the identification of resources to promote healing for loss survivors and communities.
6 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains: 1-4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 1, 4-5 & 11-12
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 2-3 & 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Ann Duckless
Connect Suicide Prevention Program
NAMI NH
Ann Duckless, MA has worked for NAMI NH for 16 years in the Connect Suicide Prevention Program, providing suicide prevention, postvention, and mental health trainings to community, military, college, and tribal nation settings. She has also gained over 20 years of experience in the field of substance use continuum of care. Ann’s varied professional work experiences including teaching at the high school and college levels, inpatient and outpatient counseling for substance use disorders, youth prevention community work at the statewide level, and a collaborative systems perspective in dealing with public health issues. Trained as a cultural competence trainer by the Anti-Defamation League, Ann embraces and promotes cultural sensitivity to issues of race, ethnicity, language, religion, disability, and sexual orientation/gender identity.