Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. CDT

What is QPR?

• QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
• Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, 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.
• QPR can be learned in this 1-hour Gatekeeper course.

• 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 can be anyone, but 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.

• Recognize the warning signs of suicide
• Know how to offer hope
• Know how to get help and save a life

Register by Monday, September 11 at 8 AM. Registration is limited to 35 participants.

Attendees will be entered into the Student Life monthly drawing for a $125 scholarship.

Questions? Contact:

Kasey Meyer
Social Worker & Resource Navigator
Kasey.meyer@dctc.edu
651-423-8217