Connect Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Clinicians - June 25, 2025
Includes a Live Web Event on 06/25/2025 at 8:30 AM (EDT)
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- Learners - $60
A 6-Hour Training with Amy Cook, MBA
Virtual via Zoom | 8:30am-4:00pm
Presentation: Mental health and substance use clinicians play a key role in assessing and managing safety with individuals at risk for suicide. Integrating evidence-based strategies, the Connect Suicide Prevention program utilizes a unique community-based, public health approach to increase the competence of substance use and mental health providers in identifying and assessing suicide risk and working with individuals to achieve and sustain recovery and resiliency. This Connect Suicide Prevention and Intervention Training includes application of evidence- based practices identified in a Zero Suicide approach to include suicide risk formulation, safety planning, lethal means reduction and care transitions. There will be discussion on how to integrate key community services and support systems for creating an effective and comprehensive safety net.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Recognize demographics related to risk factors and warning signs of suicide;
- Explain evidence-based practices concerning access to lethal means, safe messaging and care transitions; and
- List strategies for intervention upon recognizing warning signs.
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.
Amy Cook
Director of Training
NAMI NH
Amy Cook holds a BA in psychology and sociology from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. She has over 20 years of experience working with vulnerable and underserved populations across New Hampshire in both nonprofit and government sectors. Amy currently serves as Director of Training at NAMI New Hampshire, where her primary focus is suicide prevention. In this role, she is a key leader within the Connect Suicide Prevention Program, providing training and consultation nationwide.
Amy brings deep experience in implementing evidence-based suicide prevention strategies and is well-versed in the Zero Suicide framework, including risk formulation, safety planning, lethal means reduction, and care transitions. Her work emphasizes a community-based, public health approach to suicide prevention and postvention, especially among mental health and substance use providers.
She currently serves as Chair of the New Hampshire Suicide Prevention Council and Co-Chair of its Military & Veterans Committee. Amy is also the Governor-appointed Team Lead for the NH Governor’s Challenge to Prevent Suicide among Service Members, Veterans, and their Families, a role she has held since 2018. Her efforts have supported cross-sector collaboration and systems-level improvements in suicide prevention across states and U.S. territories.