Events on the Tillamook Coast

This in-person Connect Postvention training is offered through a partnership between School Safety and Prevention at Northwest Regional Education Service District and Tillamook School District.

Connect Postvention Training helps service providers and school officials respond in a coordinated and comprehensive way in the aftermath of a suicide or sudden death. Recommended participants include school and district administrators, law enforcement, EMS, mental health providers, school counselors, flight team/crisis response leads, members of the Tillamook County Suicide Prevention Coalition, clergy, and others who are involved in planning postvention response to a suicide death in the county. 

The training will cover:

• Best practices on how to coordinate a comprehensive and safe response to a suicide
• Strategies for reducing the risk of contagion
• Review of the complexity of suicide-related grief, especially for different age groups
• Recommendations for funerals and memorial activities
• Best practices for safe messaging about suicide and responding to the media

There will also be a Day 2: Tillamook County Community Planning Workshop where previous attendees will come together to

• Strengthen connections between people, schools, community organizations, and first responders in Tillamook County who should be a part of suicide postvention planning and response
• Develop a shared understanding how Tillamook County currently responds to suicide deaths, including what’s going well, gaps, and areas for improvement
• Collaborate on planning for future suicide postvention response in Tillamook County

Registration for Day 2 is separate. You must have either taken the Connect training or been invited to attend Day 2 to register. This training is not recommended for the general population. If members of the general population are interested in suicide prevention and/or postvention trainings, please reach out to Amanda Ferrat, lead of the Tillamook County Suicide Prevention Coalition at tcspcinfo@gmail.com.

To register for the Connect training, visit this link: https://bit.ly/tillamookconnect