Have you used Be the One training to save a life?

The American Legion held its first suicide prevention training with Columbia University Lighthouse Project in February to support its Be the One mission of reducing the number of veterans and servicemembers lost to suicide each year. Since then, 9,100 American Legion Family members and others have undergone this training and/or other suicide prevention training.

If you have participated in the Legion’s Be the One suicide prevention training with Columbia University, we want to hear from you. Please let us know if you have used this training as intended to intervene when a veteran was in crisis. You can email dispatch@legion.org to share. 

The suicide prevention training uses the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, which gives a suicide risk assessment via six questions that anyone can ask to help identify when someone is at risk for suicide or how to intervene if they are. 

September is National Suicide Prevention Month and there are four sessions of suicide prevention training scheduled. Sign up now for this life-saving virtual training.