The UI Counseling Service is now offering suicide prevention training online. Please consider completing this training now. The course developed by Kognito has received high reviews from students and instructors alike and is widely used by other universities and colleges, with the course specifically developed for university faculty and staff.

The course takes around 40 minutes to complete and helps those who take the course to “recognize when a student is exhibiting signs of psychological and distress,” while giving practice with these difficult conversations including how to “recognize negative stereotypes and misconceptions about mental distress.”

You may save the course and return to it at a later date as well, completing various lessons at differing times. Kognito training is co-sponsored by University Housing & Dining, University of Iowa Student Government, and the University Counseling Service.

We know that each one of us daily inspires our students toward success; thank you for being part of the CLAS community and for helping our students.

Access to the Kognito Suicide Prevention course for faculty and staff:

1. Log into Self Service: http://hris.uiowa.edu.
2. Click on the My Career button.
   1. Once on the My Career page, select the My Training button. Depending on your last visit to this page, this screen will take you to Compliances or My Courses. Find the Enroll in Courses button and click on it.
3. On the Self Enroll in a Course page, in the Course Title box search for “suicide prevention.”
4. In the search results click on the View Details button for the Kognito Suicide Prevention, Faculty/Staff FY 20 course.
5. Follow onscreen prompts to open and take the online training now.