Youth SAVE (Suicide Assessment in Various Environments) is a virtual training designed to empower school staff and community-based professionals to effectively assess, screen, and intervene with youth who are experiencing thoughts of suicide. Youth SAVE is a program of REAP.

Learning Objectives:

• Implement anti-oppressive suicide prevention and intervention through the use of an equity framework and prompts for participants to reflect on identity, intersectionality, and bias
• Conduct suicide screening and intervention in person or virtually utilizing various digital tools
• Discuss intentional strategies for strengths-based caregiver involvement 
• Emphasize youth resilience, autonomy, and agency in collaborative safety planning
• Encourage the application of training content in the participant’s specific setting through the use of an Implementation Webinar

Participants should come to Youth SAVE already having a basic understanding of how to engage with someone having thoughts of suicide.

Training Dates/Times:

• Day 1: April 21, 2025, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Day 2: April 22, 2025, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Fee: $25

• If the training fee is cost-prohibitive, please email youthsave@reapusa.org to request a scholarship.
• Portland Public Schools Student Success and Health Department is covering the registration fee for PPS employees. Contact Mila Rodriguez-Adair at mrodriguezadair@pps.net for the access code.
• REAP staff may attend Youth SAVE for free. Email youthsave@reapusa.org for the access code. 

Youth SAVE participants may receive 6.5 CEUs from the NASW.