Improve suicide-specific outcomes through flexible, scalable and affordable training solutions.
CAMS collaborates closely with state and local suicide prevention foundations and organizations to develop tailored training programs. These programs address the unique challenges faced by the populations served by these providers, including state-level suicide prevention initiatives in Oklahoma, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, New, Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, as noted in the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Many Counties have trained and Native American Tribes have partnered with CAMS-care to train their clinical staff in evidence-based, suicide- focused treatment. Please contact us for more details.
We have trained thousands of providers across various care systems and mental health disciplines in various states. Our training platform allows organization leaders to track courses completed by their staff and CAMS Designations earned. States and Counties have embraced adding these clinicians to the CAMS Locator so people with serious thoughts of suicide in the community can access treatment that is proven to work.
Custom Solutions Across Treatment Settings & Modalities
CAMS training equips agencies with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively respond to suicidal crises in any treatment setting. We tailor each training program to fit the organization’s unique needs, ensuring both a successful implementation and return on investment.
Coordinated Suicide Treatment Efforts
With CAMS, implement a unified suicide treatment practice for the entire system of care. Easily scale this training within your organization with flexible and affordable training offerings.
Through increased consistency and collaboration to suicide-specific care, build new and strengthen existing relationships to elevate a proven way to reduce suffering and save lives.
Minimize Malpractice Risk
CAMS significantly reduces your risk of malpractice due to its comprehensive documentation such as the Suicide Status Form. Feel confident and prepared in your practice while elevating your level of patient care.
A Community of Comprehensive Support
The CAMS community is here for all needs related to effective suicide-specific care, including practical tools. When you sign up for CAMS training, leverage our community to further enhance your practice far beyond your first training sessions.
Each state has adapted the CAMS model to fit its specific needs:
- In Oklahoma, providers are using CAMS across outpatient and inpatient centers, crisis centers, and respite stabilization centers — each adapting the model to the respective settings.
- In Vermont, providers are using CAMS in their mobile crisis response teams, schools, community mental health centers, and crisis stabilizations centers.
- In Ohio, one of the first states to train over 1,000 clinicians in treating suicidal people.
Your journey with CAMS starts now. Learn how to quickly, confidently, and effectively save lives.
Individuals and groups of 10 or fewer can order training through the CAMS Training Platform. Groups of 10 or more people are invited to contact our team to facilitate the evaluation.
*Discounts available for groups of 50 or more.
Dr. Jobes and the CAMS-Care team provide the most cutting-edge, evidence-based suicide risk-assessment and treatment framework for clinicians, counselors, social workers, and other relevant professionals. Our Ohio CAMS-trained behavioral health professionals are now equipped with the skills and documentation necessary to create an effective treatment plan which can potentially keep the client out of the hospital.
Austin Lucas
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Include CAMS Training in Your Grant
As awareness of the need for suicide prevention grows, more state and local agencies are receiving grants to fund trainings, including the Garrett Lee Smith and Zero Suicide grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA).
The CAMS Approach to assessing and treating suicide risk meets the criteria for most of these grants. Explore federal, state, and local funding opportunities and CAMS-related resources to help complete your grant applications.
The Colorado Office of Suicide Prevention: A Leader in Comprehensive Suicide-Specific Care
Since 2018, CAMS has partnered with the Colorado Office of Suicide Prevention (OSP) to implement a state-wide, comprehensive approach to treating suicidal risk.
Focusing on six core pillars—Connectedness, Economic Stability, Education and Awareness, Improving Access to Safer Suicide Care, Lethal Means Safety, and Postvention—OSP leverages competitive federal grants and state general funds to strategically develop and implement equitable strategies that effectively reduce suicidal despair, attempts, and deaths across Colorado.
Incorporating CAMS trainings and promoting the Zero Suicide framework have helped OSP achieve system-wide transformation of health care settings toward safer suicide care for all of Colorado.
The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention highlights OSP’s work as a model for supporting upstream comprehensive community-based suicide prevention.
Are you a government agency inspired by Colorado’s impact? Do you want to replicate their approach?
We’d love to support you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, we would love to arrange for a consultant to visit your organization for a role-play training. Please complete the inquiry form and we will be happy to contact you. In response to COVID-19, we now provide group and individual Online Role-Play Training using the Zoom platform with Zoom Breakout Rooms for role-play sessions.
Yes, we have trained groups of less than ten attendees and we also encourage you to sign up multiple individuals to the Online Role-Play Training. Please complete our inquiry form with information about your organization and we will be happy to contact you to discuss the options available.
CAMS-care provides the only authorized training in CAMS that readily fits well into a Zero-Suicide policy effort. Dr. Jobes has been involved in the Zero Suicide movement since its inception and CAMS is consistently used within Zero Suicide initiatives as one of only a handful of suicide-specific evidence-based approaches to suicidal risk according to replicated randomized controlled trials.
Yes, CAMS is an excellent evidence-based suicide-specific clinical intervention that can be well-suited for suicide prevention efforts funded by GLS. Many CAMS trainings have been conducted for state organizations and Native American behavioral health providers.
Yes, we offer discounts for groups of more than 50 and for groups of more than 100. Please complete our inquiry form and we will be happy to share them with you.
At this time we are not able to offer discounts for groups of less than 50.