Suicide Risk Assessment Course Online: 3.5 Social Work CPD Hours
Suicide Risk Assessment and Safety Planning is a practical, self-paced CPD course for social workers and social service workers across Canada. Asking directly, risk and protective factors, structured assessment, safety planning, lethal means, levels of response and postvention. It has nine narrated lessons and a 36-question final exam. Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.
Suicide Risk Assessment and Safety Planning at a glance
| Detail | Summary |
|---|---|
| Credit | 3.5 instructional hours. Not accredited or approved by any regulator. |
| Format | Online, self-paced: nine narrated lessons (about 229 minutes), exercises, workbook |
| Completion | Pass the 36-question final exam at 80 percent |
| Documentation | Certificate with course title, completion date and 3.5 hours |
| Focus areas | Risk Assessment; Crisis Intervention; Mental Health |
| Level | Professional: registered social workers, social service workers, students and new graduates |
| Price | $39 CAD, or the complete pack of 18 courses for $299 |
What you will learn in this suicide risk assessment course
- Describe how common suicide is in Canada and who is most affected.
- Distinguish risk factors, warning signs and protective factors.
- Ask about suicide directly and compassionately.
- List the components of a suicide risk assessment.
- Explain what a safety plan is and why it helps.
- Match responses to low, moderate and high risk.
- Describe risk and protective factors for key groups.
- Provide follow up care after an attempt.
- Apply the full suicide prevention process to mixed cases.
Suicide Risk Assessment course curriculum: nine lessons built around real situations
Short narrated lessons with worked examples and practice pauses, each closing with a knowledge check. Slides and a transcript are included for every lesson.
Lesson 1: Facts, myths and a helping stance
Lesson 2: Reading the whole picture
Lesson 3: The conversation that saves lives
Lesson 4: From information to a plan
Lesson 5: Making a plan that works in the dark moment
Lesson 6: Matching your action to the risk
Lesson 7: Young people, Indigenous communities, older adults and others
Lesson 8: Caring for people, communities and ourselves
Lesson 9: Making it real
Suicide Risk Assessment course: 3.5 online CPD hours for Canadian social workers
The course counts as 3.5 instructional hours. Complete every lesson, pass the final exam, download your certificate, and enter the activity in your regulator’s CPD record yourself. Keep the certificate and your notes as evidence.
Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.
The complete pack gives you all 18 courses and 54 CPD hours with a certificate for each, for $299 CAD. Bought one at a time they would cost $702.
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Suicide Risk Assessment course: common questions
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 9 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Lesson 1: Facts, myths and a helping stance2 Items
- Lesson 2: Reading the whole picture2 Items
- Lesson 3: The conversation that saves lives2 Items
- Lesson 4: From information to a plan2 Items
- Lesson 5: Making a plan that works in the dark moment2 Items
- Lesson 6: Matching your action to the risk2 Items
- Lesson 7: Young people, Indigenous communities, older adults and others2 Items
- Lesson 8: Caring for people, communities and ourselves2 Items
- Lesson 9: Making it real2 Items
- Final Exam and Certificate1 Item
