Workshops, suicide prevention training, and speaking
Bring Grief Support and Suicide Prevention Education to Your Community.
Soaring on Angels’ Wings® delivers Navigating Grief: You Can Live Again™ workshops, QPR suicide prevention training, and community presentations for faith communities, schools, nonprofits, workplaces, and community groups across Connecticut. QPR training is led by Dr. Tracy J. Dancy, a certified QPR Instructor who speaks from lived experience.
Why organizations book this
Your People Are Already Carrying This
Grief and suicide are not rare events that happen somewhere else. In 2024, 48,824 people in the United States died by suicide, according to the CDC. A 2019 study in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior estimated that each suicide leaves about 135 people exposed to it, people who knew the person. And in a 2023 CDC survey, more than two in five U.S. adults said they personally knew someone who died by suicide.
Most people never learn what to say. The 2021 Experience Camps and Harris Poll survey found that 70 percent of Americans feel they lack the skills to support someone who is grieving. Your congregation, your staff, and your students will face these moments. Preparation is the kindest thing an organization can offer them.
Programs for organizations
Three Ways to Bring Us In
Suicide Prevention Education and Awareness Presentations
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer: three steps anyone can learn to recognize warning signs, ask directly about suicide, offer hope, and connect someone to help. Dr. Tracy is a certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructor and a trained presenter of AFSP’s L.E.T.S. Save Lives™ program, and she teaches from her lived experience as a mother who lost a daughter to suicide. In a randomized trial of 32 schools published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 2008, QPR training increased staff knowledge of warning signs and their confidence to act. Length is tailored to your group.
Navigating Grief: You Can Live Again™ Workshops
The grief education workshop, delivered privately for your congregation, staff, students, or members. Two to three hours, or a series. Sponsored and grant-funded workshops have no cost to your group. About the workshop
Learn moreCommunity Speaking and Educational Presentations
Talks on grief, healing, resilience, faith, purpose, suicide loss awareness, and learning to live again after devastating loss. Thirty minutes to two hours, combining education, lived experience, encouragement, and practical tools. For conferences, services, staff days, classrooms, and support groups.
How booking works
From Request to Confirmed Date
- Send a request at least four to six weeks before your preferred date, using the form below.
- Consultation. Dr. Tracy schedules a call to discuss your audience, format, length, accessibility needs, materials, travel, and available funding.
- Proposal. You receive the program scope, and whether the program will be sponsored, grant-funded, offered as a community collaboration, or require a fee.
- Confirmation. You approve the details; the date and agreement are confirmed.
- Delivery and follow-up. Dr. Tracy prepares customized materials, delivers the program, and provides the agreed resources and a feedback request afterward.
Cost
No Cost When Funded. Quoted When Not.
Presentations and workshops supported by grants or sponsorships have no cost to the host organization. A privately requested program may carry a fee based on length, location, travel, audience size, and materials, quoted individually after the consultation. If your organization would like to sponsor a program for the wider community, ask; that is how many of our programs reach the community at no cost.
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Tell Us About Your Group
Soaring on Angels’ Wings® is not a crisis service. If you are in a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988. In an emergency, call 911.