Suicide Prevention Strategies

Administrators: Contact us for discounted district volume pricing.

Learn simple, life-saving questions to ask a person who might be suicidal, and how to help the person get services. Learn a framework for understanding the phenomenon of suicide as well as simple questions to confirm a suicidal crisis, and strategies for persuading a potentially suicidal person to seek help.


This session meets the Minnesota teacher licensure renewal area requirement for Suicide Prevention Strategies. 1 CEU.


Course Curriculum


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Your Instructor


Jake Seuntjens
Jake Seuntjens

Jake Seuntjens is the Education Services Director at the Northwest Service Cooperative in Thief River Falls, MN. His past experiences include serving as a reading specialist, reading and behavior interventionist, reading and technology teacher, and classroom teacher. He has worked with many diverse groups of students in his career. Including low-income urban and rural populations. He has also worked with English Language Learners and ELL newcomers in reading as well as behavior.

Mr. Seuntjens has specialized training in diagnostic assessments, K-12 content area strategies, interventions and RtI implementation. He has experience providing interventions to students and has coordinated whole school reading screening and data analysis. He has first-hand experience working as an interventionist within the RtI framework. Mr. Seuntjens is dedicated to integrating technology into literacy and content-area teaching, producing high quality, high interest teaching for 21st century learners.

Contact Jake: [email protected]


Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.

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Questions about this session? Please contact either Jake at [email protected] or Gina at [email protected].

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