QPR Gatekeeper Training

Presenters

Jadeshala Humphries, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

First Presenter's Institution

Georgia Southern University

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Jadeshala ‘Jade’ Humphries (she/her/hers) is a Double Eagle and received both her B.S in Psychology and M.Ed in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Georgia Southern University. Jade currently serves as the Suicide Prevention Coordinator at Georgia Southern. She has trained over 1,000 faculty, staff, students, and community members to become QPR Gatekeepers. She additionally serves a campus consultation for safe messaging and marketing on suicide.

Document Type

Event

Primary Strand

Mental Health

Relevance to Primary Strand

QPR Gatekeeper Training is an evidenced based training in how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics

School Safety

Brief Program Description

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.

Summary

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

Evidence

Following a productive, three-year joint effort between Spokane Mental Health and the founder to launch a national suicide prevention training program, the QPR Institute became an independent organization in July of 1999. In the early and developmental years, the QPR concept and associated training program that eventually lead to the founding of the Institute enjoyed considerable support and input from a wide variety of organizations and professional colleagues.

• The Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training
• The State of Washington Department of Health
• The Spokane County Health Department
• The Intercollegiate School for Nursing Education
• Sacred Heart Medical Center
• Eastern Washington University School of Social Work

and many other fine organizations who have contributed ideas, staff time, research consultation and data collection services to our shared mission of suicide prevention.

Learning Objective 1

Recognize the warning signs of suicide - Verbal, Behavioral, and Situational

Learning Objective 2

Know how to offer hope through positive action

Learning Objective 3

Know how to get help and save a life using Question, Persuade, Refer

Recommended Citation

Humphries, Jadeshala, "QPR Gatekeeper Training" (2023). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 91.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2023/2023/91

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