Have you participated in the Legion’s suicide prevention training with Columbia University or other suicide training and put the training into action to help a veteran?
19,000 – the number of American Legion Family members and others who have been trained to detect and prevent veteran suicide using the Columbia Protocol or QPR (question, persuade, refer) methods since February 2024. Those trained have the resources and knowledge to support The American Legion’s Be the One mission of saving the life of a veteran at risk of suicide, and destigmatizing the need to ask for help.
If you have taken the Columbia Protocol or QPR training, or even VA S.A.V.E., and have applied it to save a veteran, let us know. We want to hear your story of how you used this training as intended to intervene when a veteran was in crisis. Please email crichardson@legion.org or you can share on Legiontown.org under Be the One.
If you have not taken the Columbia Protocol training, register for an upcoming free class. It only takes 90 minutes to learn the tools to intervene when a veteran needs your help.
The American Legion has partnered with Columbia University to host the free training classes. For the training, Columbia University uses the Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, that supports suicide risk assessment through a series of six simple, plain-language questions that anyone can ask.
- Be the One