CARE: Confident Action and Referral by Educators

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The CARE course is a free, research-backed, web-based course to provide educators and other school staff the tools and confidence to identify students who may be at risk for emotional or behavioral distress, including suicide, substance use, violence, and sexual abuse. CARE will help all school staff understand when and how to intervene and make referrals to counselors and mental health professionals, based on their district’s policy and procedure.

Continuing Education Credits

Anyone can take this course. Counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses can take the course, but it does not meet the course requirement for certification or recertification. Those courses can be found on the Professional Educator Standards Board Website(link is external).

NOTE: This online training is not the same as CARE: Suicide Prevention in Washington Schools, which is an ESD-facilitated training that does meet the PESB course requirement for certification or recertification.

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