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. Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm.

Class Format: Live via Zoom. Session Zoom Link will be sent to participants prior to class. 

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Cape Cod Community College, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu  

A training in suicide alertness skills to help people ask about suicide directly, connect others to life-saving resources and keep them safe until those resources take over. Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Date: Friday, March 27, 2025, from 12 noon - 4:00pm

Class Format: 4 hours (in person)

Location: Oak Bluffs Public Library, Martha's Vineyard

Cape Cod Community College has partnered with the Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition and the Cape & Island District Attorney's Office to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Administrative Asst. at vduffy@capecod.edu or 508-375-5018

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help youth who are experiencing mental health or addiction challenges or in crisis.

Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and trauma, substance use, self-care and the impact of social media and bullying. Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Class Format: This is a 6.5 hour, in person class.

Location: Nantucket, Public Safety Blg.

Cape Cod Community College has partnered with the Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition and Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office  to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, CCAPE Admin. Asst. at 508-375-5018 or vduffy@capecod.edu

A skills-based training course that helps people identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use issues.

This training covers: 

• Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges.
• Common signs and symptoms of substance use challenges.
• How to interact with a person in crisis.
• How to connect a person with help.
• Expanded content on trauma, substance use and self-care.

Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Date: Friday, April 10, 2026 from 9:30am-4:30pm

Class Format: In person training.

Location: Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center, 540 Main St., Hyannis, MA

The Cape & Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition and the Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office, have partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer Mental Health First Aid, as well as QPR, safeTALK, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Cape Cod Community College, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu.  

Are you juggling multiple balls in the air with your busy professional and/or personal life? Are you always trying to develop strategies that can help you to navigate and manage your stress well?

During this course you will learn an innovative approach and practical strategies to help you to navigate your life by taming stress. We will explore current symptoms of stress, stressors, triggers, and thought traps and learn positive and practical strategies for managing and re-framing by exploring current skills. Give yourself a gift and join us. Continue to be a lifelong learner and promote positive wellbeing skills through managing stress that will enhance your life.

Outline of Course:

• Learn the basics of stress
• Identify stressors, sources of stress, and triggers
• Develop positive strategies to manage stress
• Develop a results-oriented stress management plan
• Learn a 6-step approach to manage stress - anywhere!

Course Format: 
You can participate in this course via Zoom while eating lunch at your desk, walking on the beach, or in the woods. Just carve out a time and place that works for you.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is essentially a behavioral intervention aiming to provide employees with effective feedback, reinforcement, and recognition of hazards. These hazards are not uncommon and can be found in many settings. 

This program helps improve safety conditions in the workplace and the recognition of other hazards present both in the workplace and potentially a home. The program is meant to educate and increase situational awareness of the employees based on hazard observations and unsafe behavioral observations. 

Training will cover:

• The importance of creating a team that will initiate the BBS program.        
• Listing behaviors that are deemed unsafe.         
• Understanding and recognizing common but not well know hazards or potential hazards        
• The importance of creating a BBS and hazard recognition checklist.        
• Determine a system that can account for hazards both in the workplace and for remote or traveling employees and the environments they may encounter.        
• Teaching and conducting behavioral observations in a workplace but also teaching what may constitute hazards in other settings remote from a fixed work environment.         
• How to provide appropriate feedback depending on the behavior of the employees or how to address hazards once found in all settings.        
• Use the data gathered from observing employees and make necessary changes.        
• Using basic recognition techniques and mitigation skills to address and resolve common hazards        
• Creating a system to report hazards both in and out of a normal work environment.        
• Encourage employees to set achievable goals for both behavior based corrections and hazard corrections in all workplace environments

Course format:
This course is offered in-person.

Questions?
Contact Elaine Brown, Program Coordinator at ebrown@capecod.edu or 508-375-5017.

In this full‑day workshop, you’ll learn evidence-based, nationally recognized best practices for responding to a sudden or traumatic death within a school or youth-serving environment. Industry Certificate will be awarded upon completion of session.

Date: Mon., May 4, 2026 from 8:30am - 5:30pm

Class Format: In person, 7.00 hours

Location: Cape Cod Community College, Room TBD

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Community College to offer QPR, safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Sudden Death Postvention, and ASIST training programs that provide our communities with the necessary information and tools to raise awareness, educate, and increase action to reduce suicides.

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu 

This interactive training prepares participants to safely and effectively de-escalate low-risk crisis situations using proven, hands-off verbal techniques. Grounded in Crisis Prevention Institute’s (CPI) Crisis Development Model, the program helps participants recognize early warning signs, understand the impact of trauma and brain science on behavior, and respond with confidence and professionalism.

The program includes a required pre-training online course (3 hours), live virtual instruction (3 hours) led by a Professional Instructor, and hands-on exercises. Completion earns a 2-year CPI Verbal Intervention™ Certification.

Date: Tues., May 12, 2026 from 9:00am-12 Noon (Class time 3 hours)

Class Format: Pre-work Online (3 hours) and Class time is Virtual (3 hours)

Questions: Contact Val Duffy, Cape Cod Community College, at 508-375-5018 or email vduffy@capecod.edu.