LivingWorks FAITH Curriculum

Last year, the MN Department of Agriculture and partners in Wisconsin and South Dakota offered a Suicide Prevention for Rural Ministry course, which paired the online LivingWorks FAITH course with four virtual discussion sections.

This program reached 75 faith leaders in MN, ND, SD, and WI and received strong positive reviews from participants.

We have 40 additional enrollments for LivingWorks FAITH available, and we want them to be used!  The course typically costs $150 per person, but we’re making it available to rural clergy and ministry leaders from any denomination or faith tradition at no charge. The simple online application form is here. 

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Farm and rural suicides happen more frequently than in urban areas and are frequently shrouded with stigma. People may turn to clergy and other ministry leaders for help, but you may have little training in knowing how to ask someone about thoughts of suicide, how to connect them to help, or how to provide ministry after a suicide attempt or death.

ABOUT LIVINGWORKS FAITH 

The course is interactive, online, and asynchronous (at your own pace). It takes approximately 6 hours to complete and teaches approaches and skills that will equip you for suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention (bereavement) tasks so you can effectively care for people who are struggling with thoughts of suicide or who have been impacted by suicide.

ELIGIBLITY

Applicants must be clergy or other ministry leaders who work in a rural area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, or North Dakota.

HOW TO APPLY

Visit https://forms.gle/jq9hcY5EHmcJ9r5t7 (this is a MN Dept. of Agriculture Google Form).

Join these clergy & other rural faith leaders who have

already completed LivingWorks FAITH.