QPR for Farmers and Farm Families (Live 12.10.2025)

QPR for Farmers and Farm Families (Live 12.10.2025)

Includes a Live Web Event on 12/10/2025 at 2:00 PM (CST)

What is QPR? QPR training teaches laypeople and professionals to recognize and respond to mental health crises using the approach of Question, Persuade and Refer.

To attend this training participants must be 18 years of age or older.

In this 1.5-hour QPR training, we will provide:

  • Information on the unique challenges farmers face that can lead to stress, depression, and suicide.
  • Examples implementing each QPR component with someone at risk for suicide.
  • Information on how to help someone at risk of suicide.

Registration spots are limited, so please only register if you can attend the event. No recording of this training will be available. Interested in hosting a QPR training session for your organization?

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QPR Training
12/10/2025 at 2:00 PM (CST)  |  90 minutes  |  Attendance Required
12/10/2025 at 2:00 PM (CST)  |  90 minutes  |  Attendance Required
QPR Evaluation
12 Questions
Instructions for Accessing QPR Institute Materials and Certificate
Open to download resource.
Open to download resource. Please access and download all materials from the QPR Institute within 2 weeks of attending AgriSafe’s QPR training
QPR for Farmers and Farm Families Resources
Open to download resource.
Open to download resource.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education Certificate - Multiple Disciplines
1.50 Continuing Education credits  |  Certificate available
1.50 Continuing Education credits  |  Certificate available This course is jointly provided by the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering.
CHW Number
1 Question
Continuing Education for Community Health Workers
1.50 Continuing Education credits  |  Certificate available
1.50 Continuing Education credits  |  Certificate available This program provides 1.50 Hours of DSHS certified CHW CEUs (0.50 hr., Communication Skills; 0.25 hr., Interpersonal Skills; 0.25 hr., Service Coordination Skills; and 0.50 hr., Capacity Building Skills).

Continuing Education for Community Health Workers: CHW and/or CHW-I CEUs are available through the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, Center for Community & Rural Health Education. See individual courses for additional information.  

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Continuing Education for Multiple Disciplines: This course is jointly provided by the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering.

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Olivia Bury, MA, PLPC

Behavioral Health Specialist

AgriSafe Network

Olivia is the Behavioral Health Coordinator and lead on suicide prevention training programs at AgriSafe. She received her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health & Guidance in 2022. Olivia providers QPR and CALM trainings that focus on the unique stressors that those in agriculture experience. In addition to her AgriSafe role, Olivia is a provisional licensed counselor. She works part time at a school, where she works with pre-k to middle school students.

Laura Siegel, MA

Health Communications Officer

AgriSafe Network

Laura received her master’s degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication from James Madison University in 2021, with a concentration in Health and Scientific Communication. Her professional interests include supporting her local ag. community, increasing public health literacy, and decreasing the stigmas surrounding mental health disorders and substance use disorders.

Laura’s current projects include script arranging for AgriSafe’s Talking Total Farmer Health podcast, copyediting a broad range of content,  developing digital content, helping with health communication initiatives, and marketing materials, and assisting the Web Technologies Librarian with website accessibility and digital content management.