DATES
TBD
Time
1:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CDT
CE
NBCC Hours: 3
ACEP NO. 7105
Cost
$105.00 (NON-REFUNDABLE)
Description
This course introduces mental health professionals to tools useful in assessing, intervening, and providing postvention support in cases involving suicide risk or suicide loss. Drawing from evidence-based frameworks—including Joiner’s Interpersonal-Psychological Theory, Schneidman’s Cubic Model, and contemporary suicide-focused treatments like Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)—participants will learn to identify and prioritize risk factors across health, environmental, and historical domains. The course integrates lived-experience material from a family who lost their daughter to suicide, offering a powerful lens into warning signs, hindsight bias, and the complexity of suicide grief. Participants will receive exposure to direct suicide inquiry methods, the 24–48-hour ladder-up assessment, lethal-means counseling, and crisis coordination using best-practice guidelines. Emphasis is placed on stigma-reducing language, relational and identity-based contributors to risk, and the clinician’s role in fostering hope and resilience. With this introduction to current methodologies, references, recommended readings, and trainings, participants will leave with new competencies to implement in a variety of clinical or community settings.
Learning Objectives
1. Differentiate between evidence-based suicide-focused treatments (DBT, CBT-Suicide Prevention, CAMS) and general mental health interventions.
2. Analyze a brief clinical vignette to correctly classify the client’s suicide warning signs.
3. Demonstrate understanding of postvention and grief concepts.
Live/Virtual Training Information
• If you register for the Virtual Classroom training, make sure you have a good WIFI connection.
• Your computer will need a camera for you to be visible throughout the entire training to receive the certificate.
• We will be using Zoom for the training; therefore, you will need to download the Zoom program to be able to use the link.
• You will receive three emails from us before the training. The first email will be sent out the week before the training and will include the zoom link, time of the training, and our address. The second email will be sent the beginning of the week in which the training is being held and will include all the information included in the first email plus the materials for the course. The third email will be sent the morning of the training and will include the Zoom link, the posttest (if needed) and the evaluation for the course.
• Your certificate will be emailed after the training, within 5-7 business days upon receiving your evaluation and posttest (if needed).
• While it is rare, there are occasions when we must cancel a training due to low registration. If this occurs, we will notify registered participants by Tuesday evening of the week of the scheduled training. We appreciate your understanding and will provide alternative options at that time.
• Our Live/Virtual trainings are offered in a hybrid format—held live at a physical location and streamed via Zoom at the same time. In-person attendees join the presenter on-site, while virtual participants watch the live training in real time and can fully participate through Zoom.
Why Come In Person?
• Receive in-person contact CE hours
• Enjoy staying in Fort Worth, Texas with hotels within walking distance
• Tour our 7500 square foot counseling practice and continuing education facility
• Build relationships with other participants
• Informal conversations during breaks and lunch with our trainer
Gary Lee Maddux Jr.
MASTER OF ARTS IN CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATE
Gary Lee Maddux Jr. is a counselor and educator whose clinical and training work is informed by both extensive professional experience and personal loss. After a long career in Marine Corps aviation as both a pilot and instructor, he entered the counseling field following the death of his daughter to suicide. This experience now informs a focused commitment to suicide prevention, postvention, and trauma-informed care. He works primarily with veterans, first responders, and families navigating complex grief and suicide-related loss.
As a certified QPR instructor, he provides suicide prevention and resilience training for both mental health professionals and community audiences. His background in high-stakes training environments contributes to a structured, clearly organized teaching approach, while his clinical work ensures that content remains grounded in relational awareness and emotional attunement. His trainings are designed to increase clinician confidence in addressing suicide directly, with an emphasis on practical application, ethical responsibility, and the reduction of stigma.
Approved Continuing Education Provider
CCFAM Training has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7105. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CCFAM Training is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
This training is non-refundable, unless cancelled by training provider. Event will be cancelled if fewer than 6 participants.
