Question, Persuade, and Refer
What is QPR?
QPR is a life saving intervention. QPR intervention is contigent upon the correct reading and understanding of one or more suicidal communications.
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer, an emergency mental health intervention that teaches lay and professional gatekeepers to recognize and respond positively to someone exhibiting suicide warning signs and behaviors.
As a Gatekeeper instructor, I will be teaching members of the audience the nature of suicidal communications, what forms such communication may take and how important such communications are in triggering a QPR intervention.
