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Linking Individuals Needing
Care (LINC)

‍Overview: A skills-based training focused on rapport-building and engagement strategies,
screening and risk identification, safety planning, community referrals and linkages, and
steps for collaborating with the system of care to keep individuals at risk for suicide safe.

‍Time: 8 Hours

‍Audience: Care Coordinators, Case Managers, and Health/Mental Health Professionals

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Training Objectives

  • Highlight the importance of following up with individuals who leave crisis stabilization, inpatient hospitalization, or otherwise disclose suicide ideation.
  • Describe the focus of suicide prevention care coordination services and the roles and functions of a suicide prevention care coordinator.
  • Recognize best practices for developing a Suicide Care Coordination pathway (LINC), including research-informed tools for screening, assessment, and safety planning.
  • Identify and differentiate between suicide warning signs, risk factors, and protective factors.
  • Learn how to develop client and family-centered goals aimed to address suicide risk and promote strengths.
  • Implement effective care coordination strategies for assessing and monitoring suicide risk, identifying and promoting strengths, coping skills, and use of community supports.
  • Identify service use barriers and learn problem-solving strategies to connect and keep clients and families engaged in community services, including care coordination.
  • Provide tactics for networking and partnership building to tap into underutilized community resources.
  • Utilize rapport building and therapeutic alliance strategies to engage adults at risk for suicide and their families.
  • Demonstrate the ability to utilize active listening skills and client-centered principles when assessing suicide risk, developing collaborative safety plans and care coordination goals, and provide long-term care coordination.
  • Apply the LINC Care Monitoring approach to real-life examples of adults at risk for suicide.

CEUs available to those licensed with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy
and Mental Health Counseling: Provider Number 50-12347, exp. 3/31/2025