Education Core
Education Overview
Rocky Mountain MIRECC endeavors to disseminate useful information about suicide prevention in ways that are accessible to Veterans and the community at large, and evaluate strategies to translate research-informed practices into everyday care.
For Veterans
Treatment Works for Vets
Visit the Treatment Works for Vets website to learn more about proven mental health treatments for Veterans, explore treatment goals, and learn how to find treatment. Choose a path to get started.
Uniting for Suicide Postvention (USPV)
If you lose someone to suicide, it can be a tremendously painful experience. The Rocky Mountain MIRECC (in partnership with the VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention), has developed a website for suicide postvention that provides information, suggestions, and best practices to help you or another individual process suicide loss. Visit the USPV website to learn more.
How to Talk to a Child about a Suicide Attempt in Your Family
If there has been a recent suicide attempt in your family, this may be one of the toughest experiences you and your children may ever face. It is important to take care of yourself, so that you are better able to care for your child. Learn more by visiting our T2K website.
Webinars
Check out these free webinar series:
- The Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program (SRM) Lecture Series is for providers working with Veterans at risk for suicide. The lectures cover a broad range of suicide prevention topics including best practices in suicide risk assessment, risk stratification, cultural considerations for suicide prevention, and postvention practices.
- The Clinical Practice Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Patients at risk for Suicide (CPG) for Suicide Prevention Webinar Series provides guidance on implementing the updated VA/DOD CPG for the Assessment and Management of Patients at risk for Suicide.
- The Suicide Prevention Cyberseminar Series (SoSP) disseminates research based evidence and best practices in the area of suicide prevention in order to: a) inform clinical practice decisions to improve outcomes for Veterans at risk for suicidal self-directed violence and b) foster collaborations between researchers to advance evidence based knowledge to reduce Veteran suicide.
Fellowships and Career Training Opportunities
Postdoctoral Fellowships
For information about fellowships at both the Salt Lake City and Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Centers, visit our Fellowships Page.
VA GENIUS
VA GENIUS (Growing Excellence in Next-generation Investigators Undertaking translational Science) provides mentorship and applied educational opportunities in the translational sciences to undergraduate students, to prepare them for VA research careers. Students who participate in VA GENIUS live in Denver, Colorado for 10 weeks over the summer and are paired with VA research investigators to complete mentored research and training opportunities. Please find additional information at: https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn19/aboutus/genius.asp or contact Dr. Samantha Hack at Samantha.Hack@va.gov and Dr. Kathryn Nearing at Kathryn.Nearing@va.gov.
Multimedia
Visual Abstracts
A primary goal of the Rocky Mountain MIRECC Education Core is take the research that is done here and make it accessible to everyone. We do this with our podcasts, presentations, this website, and now through visual abstracts. In almost all cases the research that we do ends up in published form in a peer reviewed scientific journal. The goal of a visual abstract is to present the information in a compelling visual way that lets the user decide whether they want to pursue 'the rest of the story.'
Take a look at our full gallery!Podcasts
Hosted by a team of experts, Short Takes on Suicide Prevention breaks down the science behind preventing suicide, developing treatments that work, and saving lives. Produced by the Rocky Mountain MIRECC for Veteran Suicide Prevention, this podcast is featured in the VA Podcast Network. The Department of Veterans Affairs does not endorse or officially sanction any entities that may be discussed in this podcast, nor any media, products, or services they may provide. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast from your favorite podcasting app using the smartlink here. You can also find all our episodes at our host site.
Educational Products
The Rocky Mountain MIRECC offers many useful educational products for Veterans, Families, and Clinicians that can be downloaded or ordered for free and mailed to you.
Please note: Most digital multimedia products are unavailable for extended web maintenance while we improve the accessibility. We apologize for the inconvenience. The order form for physical products and printed resources remains available.
Last Updated 28 October 2024
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Contact Information
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC (RMR VAMC)
1700 N Wheeling St, BLDG A2
Aurora, CO 80045
303-399-8020
RockyMountainMIRECC@va.gov
Utah
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
500 Foothill DR
Salt Lake City, UT 84148
801-582-1565 x2821