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MORE THAN A WORKSHOP

Training your whole workforce will use

InPlace® Learning is SafeSide’s unique workforce education model that blends the cost effectiveness, convenience, fidelity, and repeatability of online training with group learning with ongoing access to faculty and an always accessible Community of Practice.

Three reinforcing components

Rather than a one-off event, InPlace® Learning builds over time. Each component serves a distinct purpose — and together they create lasting behavior change across your workforce.

Video-Guided InPlace® Workshops

Specially designed video modules guide the workshop group through clinical content, real demonstrations, and discussion prompts — building a common framework and shared language across your team.No facilitation expertise is needed. Any staff member can host. The session works in-person, hybrid, or fully remote, and can be repeated for new staff without scheduling an external trainer.

SafeSide Live Learning Sessions

SafeSide faculty — clinical specialists and people with lived experience — run regular live learning sessions open to all members. Staff can ask questions they wouldn't raise in a team meeting and hear how peers in other settings handle similar challenges.Between live sessions, the online Community of Practice gives staff a place to post questions, access updated materials, and keep the conversation going on their own schedule.

Tools and Refreshers

Short refresher modules and new content are released across the year — ideal for onboarding new staff, revisiting skills that have drifted, or responding to updated clinical guidelines.This is what makes InPlace® Learning sustainable. Your investment compounds over time, and new team members can reach the same standard as existing staff without waiting for the next scheduled training day.

As part of InPlace® Learning, SafeSide provides two types of live learning sessions with faculty and peers: - Monthly Questions & Updates: share experiences, connect, and discuss suicide prevention challenges with SafeSide experts. - In Focus: one-hour expert-led sessions that take a deeper look at complex or frequently raised themes, such as suicide in children.

In Place Comparisons
How it compares

Why InPlace® Learning works differently

Every approach to workforce education has strengths. InPlace® Learning is designed to bring them together — so you don't have to choose between fidelity, sustainability, and real human connection.

More than a decade of research

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! SafeSide's instructional design and video production team partners with your implementation team to shape the program for your setting and population.

Customization can include custom introductory material that frames the program in your organizational context, clinical demonstrations tailored to your patient group or service type, discussion prompts aligned to the specific challenges your workforce faces, culturally sensitive and age-appropriate content for the populations you serve, and integration with your existing induction and refresher processes.

All customizations include instructional design, scripting, storyboarding, and video production. Learn more here.

InPlace® Learning works across a wide range of settings and workforce types. It has demonstrated strong outcomes among mental health professionals, youth services workers, and primary care teams — clinical and non-clinical alike.

It works well for organizations that have a distributed or shift-based workforce that is hard to gather in one place, need a sustainable approach that does not depend on external facilitators for every session, serve populations where suicide prevention is a regular part of staff practice, or want training that builds a shared language across teams, sites, or services.

If you are unsure whether it is the right fit, the SafeSide team can talk through your setting and population before you commit.

Yes — the initial workshop is the starting point, not the destination. InPlace® Learning is designed to build over time through three ongoing components that keep suicide prevention skills current and top of mind.

The first is the Video-Guided Workshop, a five to six-hour team session where a local host presses play, and video modules guide the group through clinical content, demonstrations, and discussion. No facilitation expertise is needed — any staff member can host.

From there, learning continues through monthly live sessions with SafeSide faculty. Monthly Questions and Updates give staff a space to share experiences, ask questions, and connect with peers across other organizations. In Focus sessions go deeper on complex or frequently raised themes — such as suicide risk in children and young people — in a focused one-hour format.

Throughout the year, short refresher modules keep skills current, introduce new content, and bring new staff up to the same standard without repeating the full workshop.

This ongoing structure is what separates InPlace® Learning from a single training event — and it is what the evidence shows is needed for lasting behavior change.