Prevention Consultants of Missouri provides a variety of training and workshops. Sessions can be tailored to different audiences, needs, and time frames. If interested in a training listed below or a similar topic, please contact us.

Suicide Prevention

• Signs of Suicide
  • Participants in this evidence-based training learn the acronym ACT. Acknowledge. Care. Tell. They also learn the different myths and facts that surround suicide, as well as risk factors.  The training is appropriate for those working or volunteering with adults, teens, or children.
• Question, Persuade, Refer
  • Certified staff provide the research-based and nationally recognized Question, Persuade, and Refer suicide prevention training. Participants learn skills in recognizing suicidal risk, structured techniques of safe intervention, and methods of effective referral. The training is appropriate for those working or volunteering with adults, teens, or children. 
• Youth Mental Health First Aid
  • Certified staff present the research-based curriculum in an 8-hour or 4-hour hybrid course. 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 an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Upon successful completion, participants receive a 3-year certification.
• Adult Mental Health First Aid 
  • Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related problem. In the Mental Health First Aid course, participants learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to find help. Upon successful completion, participants receive a 3-year certification.

Youth

• Bully Prevention Training of Peer Trainers
  • The program trains selected high school students in providing effective bully prevention presentations. After being trained, they present in classrooms for younger students to teach prevention and effective intervention for bullying in their school and community.
• Child Abuse Prevention
  • Child Safety Matters and Teen Safety Matters are classes taught to youth from elementary through high school to help prevent child abuse. This training includes internet safety.
• Peer Conflict Mediation Training
  • Student teams are trained to mediate conflict between their peers to prevent discipline referrals and reduce student conflict at school.
• Teens Teach Prevention
  • Teens Teach is a collaboration project through Prevention Consultants of Missouri (PCM), Drug Free Communities (DFC), and area school districts. They provide training, presentations, scripts, and outlines for high school students to teach substance use prevention to their peers, grades 6th-8th. Lessons include Vaping/THC +Wellness and Alcohol + Wellness.

Adults

• Bully Prevention Education
  • Presentations are provided for students, faculty, staff, and parents to teach effective skills and methods to reduce the consequences of bully behavior.
• Darkness to Light Stewards of Children Training
  • Darkness to Light empowers adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse through awareness, education, and the reduction of stigma. 
• Drug Use, Misuse, and Trends
  • This workshop provides current, county-specific substance use data and practical information about addiction, prevention, and descriptions of common drugs of abuse.
• Generation Rx
  • The mission of Generation Rx is to educate people of all ages about the potential dangers of misusing prescription medications. In doing so, we strive to enhance medication safety among our youth, college students, other adults in our communities, and older adults. Prescription medications can help us live longer and healthier lives, but any medication has the potential to do harm – especially when misused. Click the link above to see how Generation Rx can impact your community!
• Anger Management
  • Learn to manage strong emotions and effective strategies to manage anger without negative consequences. Four-session classes are taught by Mary Beth Myers, PhD. Cost: $120. Can be made in two payments of $60 at the first and third classes.  Agency and self-referrals are welcome.
    • Contact: mary@preventionconsultants.org or 573-368-4755
• Parent Education
  • Raise a happy, healthy child. A research-based curriculum that includes child development, communication skills, discipline, personal and family stress, and family budgeting. Four-session classes are taught by Mary Beth Myers, PhD. Cost: $120. Can be made in two payments of $60 at the first and third classes.  Agency and self-referrals are welcome.
    • Contact: mary@preventionconsultants.org or 573-368-4755