Description
This 4.25 credit‑hour home study continuing education training examines how marginalization shapes suicidality and access to care across diverse communities. Participants will explore the limitations of traditional, risk‑focused interventions and practice practical, community‑based strategies that prioritize client autonomy and safety. This training is designed for mental health professionals, including counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, and other clinicians who provide direct services and want to align their suicide‑related practice with anti‑carceral, community‑based values.
Through the video training and supplemental written packets, you’ll examine how structural oppression and carceral systems influence both suicidal distress and the options typically offered to clients. You’ll leave with concrete tools to collaborate with clients on crisis planning that foregrounds their own definitions of safety, preferred supports, and cultural context.
This course includes
- 2 hour and 40 minute recorded video lecture (2.75 CE credit hours) including
- A liberation- and anti-carceral-oriented framework for understanding suicidality and crisis in the context of power, sanism, and structural harm
- A module on law, ethics, human rights guidance, and standard of care, including a Nevada case example and a worksheet to identify participants’ own state statutes
- A review of current evidence on hospitalization, coercion, and community-based alternatives, with emphasis on least-restrictive, collaborative approaches
- Guided practice developing collaborative care and crisis plans (adult and youth), pod maps, and crisis preferences that prioritize client-defined supports and community resources
- Vignette-based exercises applying anti-carceral crisis stances to complex cases, including when clients request hospitalization, refuse it with real supports, or lack stable supports
- Supplemental materials (1.5 CE credit hours) including
- A detailed Supplemental Training Packet with activities, sample care plans, strategies for preparing clients for hospitalization, information on ethical codes as pertaining to hospitalization, and a detailed reference list
- A Supplemental Reflection Packet with reflective activities designed to deepen your practice and self-awareness
Learning objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
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Describe how sanism, carcerality, and intersecting structural harms shape who is most harmed, silenced, or misread by suicide risk responses, and how these patterns influence risk and protective factors for suicidality.
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Identify at least three evidence-based community and social support factors that reduce suicidal ideation and attempts beyond individual clinical treatment.
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Apply legal and ethical standards for suicide risk and advance planning, using Nevada law and professional codes as a case example.
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Evaluate the potential harms of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, particularly for marginalized communities, and articulate advocacy strategies when clients are hospitalized or at risk of forced treatment.
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Develop a collaborative care plan or crisis plan that prioritizes client-defiied supports, community resources, and preferences around hospitalization, including when to involve designated support persons instead of emergency departments.
Continuing Education
Participants will receive 4.25 NBCC credit hours for completion of all required course modules, including a quiz. The quiz requires a score of 80% or better and may be attempted 3 times. Laura Baker is approved by the Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors to offer continuing education. Loom Collective is approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™), ACEP No. 7795. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Loom Collective is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
Pricing
Our pay‑what‑you‑can model invites providers to select a fee ($40-215) based on income and access to resources. When people with more access to wealth pay more, it makes it possible for us to offer low‑cost and free options to those with less access.
- Scholarship/student – For students, trainees, system-impacted folks, and anyone for whom paying more would be a genuine hardship. Choose this tier if you frequently worry about meeting basic needs, are navigating significant debt, or face structural barriers to income.
- Reduced rate – For clinicians, advocates, and caregivers who can meet basic needs but for whom the standard rate would be a real stretch. This may fit if you’re underpaid, supporting family on a single or limited dual income, living with high medical costs, or have limited expendable income.
- Standard – For folks who can consistently meet their basic needs, have some expendable income, and want to pay the baseline rate that sustains this work. This reflects the value of this specialized CE course and supports fair compensation for the labor behind it.
- Supporter – For people with reliable expendable income, savings, or institutional support who want to actively subsidize scholarship and reduced-rate seats. Choosing this tier directly expands access for low-income and system-impacted clinicians.
- Community sponsor – For higher-earning clinicians, supervisors, or consultants, especially those with significant generational wealth, assets, or well-paying roles, who want their payment to function as material solidarity. This tier helps fund free or very low-cost access for people most impacted by carcerality and economic violence.
Presenter
Laura Baker Rathore, MA, LMFT (they/them) is a Nevada‑licensed marriage and family therapist, educator, and organizer specializing in gender‑affirming, anti‑carceral care for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. As Executive Director of Inclusive Counseling LLC (2023–2026), Laura founded and led a liberation‑oriented counseling agency, developed the Gender‑Affirming Care Certificate Program, and created ongoing continuing education programs for interdisciplinary providers. Their proudest achievement during this time was implementing agency‑wide crisis response policies that prioritized consent, collaboration, and community supports, so that Inclusive Counseling clinicians did not initiate involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations for any of the more than 1,000 clients served. They have designed and facilitated numerous trainings on gender‑affirming care, anti‑carceral crisis response, and recognizing so‑called “conversion therapy” for universities, professional organizations, and community groups, and serve as co‑founder and director of The Loom Collective, a continuing education project focused on sociopolitical and ethical issues in queer and trans mental health.
Co-Developer: Hannah Zipes, MA, CPC‑I, ATR‑P (they/them) is a clinical professional counselor intern and provisionally-licensed art therapist whose work centers queer and trans clients, creative practice, and trauma‑informed, community‑based care. Hannah co‑facilitates education and training initiatives through Loom Collective and brings a background in art therapy, higher levels of care, and gender‑affirming practice to their clinical and teaching work.
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