Suicide Rapid Response Program Lead

Lines for Life•Portland, OR

13h•$27 - $34•Hybrid

About The Position

Lines for Life is a regional non-profit that is dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide. We offer help and hope to individuals and communities and promote mental health for all. Our work addresses a spectrum of needs that include intervention, prevention, and advocacy. We educate, train, and advocate to prevent issues of substance abuse, mental illness, and thoughts of suicide from reaching crisis levels. But when a crisis arises or support is needed, we are available 24/7/365 to intervene with personalized help. This position leads the development, coordination, and community-based implementation of Lines for Life’s Youth Suicide Rapid Response (SRR) postvention program. The role helps ensure that safe, evidence-informed, and culturally responsive postvention supports are available to communities statewide. The SRR Program Lead participates directly in community response activities whenever possible, including on-site postvention support, community outreach, partner coordination, group support, and the development of resources for communities across Oregon.

Requirements

Qualified Mental Health Associate or bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, or a behavioral science field.
Knowledge of suicide postvention best practices, principles appropriately in community response, postvention, outreach, and group support settings.
Experience leading a coalition or social services program.
Strong organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and events simultaneously.
Knowledge of compassion fatigue and burnout.
Ability to develop meaningful connections and demonstrate empathy.
Strong aptitude for networking with diverse groups of people.
Ability to navigate group settings, including emotionally complex conversations, multi-agency meetings, and community response environments.
Ability to complete CISM training within three months after hire.
Proficiency with databases and Microsoft Office applications.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Ability to engage communities, partners, and individuals impacted by suicide in a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and respectful manner.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or a behavioral science field, or clinical licensure.
Suicide prevention and postvention trainer certifications, such as ASIST, Connect, YMHFA, or MHFA.
Experience providing community-based crisis response, postvention support, suicide prevention outreach, group facilitation, or support following critical incidents, traumatic loss, suicide death, or suicide-related crisis.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of SRR in collaboration with leaders from Prevention, Crisis Lines, and other clinical teams across the organization.
Create and maintain a system for rapid deployment of culturally appropriate support services to communities experiencing suicide deaths and suicide contagion.
Develop and maintain a statewide inventory of community suicide postvention resources, services, and supports.
Evaluate the effectiveness of potential subcontract service providers who can help reduce contagion risk and improve community health.
Work with Oregon Health Authority (OHA) partners to support deployments, reporting, and PRL onboarding processes.
As needed and in collaboration with the Postvention Response Lead, provide on-site grief and crisis support with short notice while coordinating with subcontractors to provide more ongoing support.
Provide postvention leadership by meeting regularly with OHA and the Alliance, presenting to partners, and leading statewide learning collaboratives for youth suicide prevention.
Integrate the voices of individuals with lived experience of loss and attempt survivors into suicide prevention and postvention programs.
Attend meetings with schools, community centers, and Postvention Response Leads to support community response and readiness.
Conduct proactive outreach and community engagement to identify, build, and maintain relationships with local suicide prevention, postvention, behavioral health, school-based, culturally specific, and community support resources across Oregon.
Build relationships with schools, county partners, community-based organizations, behavioral health providers, and culturally specific partners to strengthen local postvention readiness and suicide prevention capacity.
Provide technical assistance to PRLs on county postvention plans.
Coordinate and facilitate the Suicide Rapid Response Quarterly Collaborative Meeting to share postvention response practices, including support for front-line workers and behavioral health clinicians.
Assist with grant reporting and evaluation for suicide prevention programs.
Create and maintain a statewide resource database.
Co-lead content and agenda creation for the annual Postvention Summit.
Perform project management duties, including coordination with communities and schools, template and materials creation, project progress monitoring, and stakeholder reporting.
Perform other duties as assigned.