From Awareness to Action: Why Suicide Prevention Month Matters to Clinician-Educators
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month—a time when schools, families, and professionals across the country pause to talk about mental health, share resources, and remember lives lost to silence and stigma. As a licensed clinician, educator, and CE provider, I see this month not just as a time to raise awareness, but as a reminder that prevention requires more than conversation. It requires education—structured, accessible, and responsive to real-world challenges.
At My Mental Health University™, we’ve always believed that therapists, counselors, and helping professionals are not just healers. We are teachers. Every day, we educate parents, empower our clients, train interns, and lead workshops. But what many clinicians don’t realize is that the very knowledge we hold—about trauma, suicide risk, cultural barriers, communication—can and should be translated into formal learning. And in doing so, we multiply our impact.
That’s why, in addition to observing Suicide Prevention Month, we’re using this September to launch something special: a course designed to help professionals like you turn your knowledge into structured, NBCC-compliant continuing education.
The course, How to Be NBCC CE Compliant, was built from the ground up to answer the questions I wish someone had answered for me years ago. What content does NBCC actually require? How do you write learning objectives that pass an audit? What forms, certificates, and evaluations are needed? How do you ethically structure your content without losing your voice or creativity?
This course breaks it down step-by-step, showing you how to design and deliver a training that’s not only powerful and relevant, but also fully aligned with NBCC’s requirements. Whether you’re preparing a trauma workshop, a suicide prevention training for teachers, or even a professional development series for interns, this course will help you create with confidence and clarity.
More importantly, it connects directly to this month’s message: prevention is not a solo act. The most effective prevention efforts happen when we empower others—parents, teachers, community leaders—to respond to warning signs, to speak up, and to offer support before crisis escalates. And that empowerment often starts with the professionals in the room—you and me—choosing to teach what we know.
So as we recognize Suicide Prevention Month, I invite you to not only reflect, but act. Join us for this important training. Learn how to build programs that last. And consider that your next workshop, webinar, or lunch-and-learn could be more than informative—it could be the start of someone else’s ability to save a life.
If you’ve ever thought, “I have something to teach, but I don’t know where to start,”—this is where you start.
Registration for How to Be NBCC CE Compliant is now open.
This live and on-demand course includes:
A 1-hour CE credit
Compliance checklists and editable templates
Real-world examples from NBCC-approved trainings
Practical strategies to write objectives, issue certificates, and meet audit standards
Click here to register: How to be NBCC CE Compliant
Let’s build, teach, and train with intention—because prevention starts with preparation.
