Recognize, Respond, Refer: Suicide Prevention Training
Recognize, Respond, Refer: Suicide Prevention Training for UW Undergraduate Students (2025) provides information and guidance to UWEC undergraduate students on how to support student mental health and prevent suicide.
Recognize, Respond, Refer offers training and resources that help people learn about how to care for and better support others when they are struggling with their mental health. Recognize, Respond, Refer provides actionable strategies to recognize signs that may indicate someone needs support, respond compassionately, and refer someone to resources for continued support.
Students complete the training here
The faculty/staff version of the training is available here.
Campus Connect Suicide Prevention Training for Gatekeepers
Counseling Services offers Campus Connect suicide prevention training to UWEC faculty and staff. This 2-hour, interactive training provides foundational knowledge and skills for any person to be able to respond and help someone who is in a crisis, including those who may be thinking about suicide. Using discussion, activities, and group interaction participants will learn about key warning signs for suicide, how to respond to someone who is in crisis, ask about suicidal thinking, encourage help-seeking, and connect people to supportive resources for the help they need. This training is designed for anyone who wants to build their confidence in being able to respond to a person in distress who may (or may not) be thinking about suicide. Please contact Paula Chiara for information on upcoming trainings.
SUICIDE WARNING SIGNS
- Threatening to or talking about wanting to die
- Increased apathy, hopelessness
- Poor eating and sleeping habits
- Acquiring a gun
- Stockpiling pills/substance abuse
- Putting personal affairs in order
- Withdrawal from friends, family, and activities usually enjoyed
WHAT YOU CAN DO IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SUICIDAL
- Call 988 (National Suicide Prevention Hotline)
- See a doctor or therapist
- Contact the local crisis facility
- In case of emergency call 911
- Visit Preventsuicidewi.org to learn more about the warning signs and what more you can do to help
- Text Hello to 741741 (Crisis Text Line)
- Call 1-888-552-6642 (Northwest Connections Mental Health Crisis Line)
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO?
- learn more about suicide and mental illness
- join your local coalition
- encourage employers, schools, social groups to provide suicide prevention education
