Suicide Prevention Training Requirements

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The Hanover College Educator Preparation Program completion of two free online courses as an assignment for Student Teaching Seminar 3. Student Teachers will debrief and discuss the topic and the courses with the Education Faculty and Student Teaching Supervisor The completion certificates also fulfill the requirement for suicide prevention training certification for teacher licensing by the State of Indiana.

Although the state allows several different options, the Hanover College Education Department uses the training available through The Jason Foundation.

To see the following link, you must REGISTER to create an account, log in, and browse for the required courses here:

The Jason Foundation Suicide Prevention Training Website

The State of Indiana required 2 hours of Suicide Prevention Training for teacher licensure, which is met by the PREVENTION IS THE KEY (Module 3) (found under 2 hour courses) in The Jason Foundation website.

Hanover College Educator Preparation Program also strongly recommends the course called SUICIDE POSTVENTION: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF EDUCATORS (found under 1 hour courses) at The Jason Foundation website.

These courses do not have to be done all at once, but should be completed prior to graduation and included with your DP 3.

There is an exam that must be passed to obtain the certificate of completion for each course.

Save the certification/completion PDFs to your computer or One Drive, Dropbox, etc.

Upload it to your Standard for Success account under Professional Portfolio

As part of your Indiana teaching license application, you will also upload these in LVIS.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Torline in the Education Student Services Office.

We hope you will find this training especially relevant and review it during your practice as a professional educator. The Jason Foundation offers many more free courses and offers additional tools for continued education on preventing youth suicide. The Jason Foundation offers a free app called "A FRIEND ASKS" to help you during the stressful situation of helping to prevent a suicide.

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Indiana Department of Education - Effective July 1, 2013, the department may not issue an initial teaching license (includes instructional, student services and administrative licenses) at any grade level to an applicant for an initial teaching license unless the applicant shows evidence that the applicant has successfully completed two hours of education and training on the prevention of child suicide and the recognition of signs that a student may be considering suicide.

The following link gives addition details of the requirement for licensing as well as other approved providers of this training.

https://www.in.gov/doe/educators/educator-licensing/suicide-prevention-training/

To see the following link, you must REGISTER to create an account, log in, and browse for the required courses here: The Jason Foundation Suicide Prevention Training Website

To see the following link, you must REGISTER to create an account, log in, and browse for the required courses here:

The Jason Foundation Suicide Prevention Training Website