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The curriculum

Every course, in one place.

Take the whole program, or start with the one module your team needs most. Each course is designed to be run together, in a room, with people who already know your congregation's names.

Core curriculum

The certification track.

These four courses make up the required path to becoming a SoulSafe Certified church.

Core · 01

Suicide Prevention Training

The foundation. How to recognise the signs, how to ask the direct question without flinching, what to say and what never to say, and the exact steps that follow a disclosure. Built to replace panic with a plan.

Staff & lead volunteers · Required for certification
Core · 02

Understanding the Landscape

What depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and suicidal ideation actually are — taught plainly, without stigma and without spiritualising away a medical reality. Your team stops guessing and starts understanding.

Staff & lead volunteers · Required for certification
Core · 03

Building Your Church's Care Pathway

Turning good intentions into infrastructure: naming your point person, writing your disclosure protocol, setting confidentiality boundaries, and establishing local Christian counseling partnerships your congregation can actually afford.

Leadership & care team · Required for certification
Core · 04

Sustaining the People Who Carry It

Ministry burnout is not a side issue — it is how churches lose the very people who hold everyone else. Boundaries, self-care that is not selfish, and how leaders stay spiritually alive while walking through other people's darkest hours.

All participants · Required for certification

Specialist modules

Add what your church actually needs.

Available à la carte alongside the core track, or on their own for churches not yet ready for full certification.

Module

Mental Health in Marriages

Supporting couples where one or both partners are struggling — and equipping spouses who are quietly carrying it alone.

À la carte
Module

Youth & Student Ministry

What is different when the person in front of you is 12, 15, or 17 — including self-harm, social media, and mandatory reporting realities.

À la carte
Module

Grief & Postvention

How a church cares for a family and a congregation after a suicide — and how to talk about it from the platform without causing harm.

À la carte
Module

Preaching Mental Health Well

Language from the pulpit that opens doors instead of closing them. What to say, what to stop saying, and how to normalise the conversation on a Sunday.

À la carte
Module

Faith, Medication & Therapy

Addressing the belief that needing help is a failure of faith — a conversation many congregations have never had out loud.

À la carte
Module

Annual Recertification

A lighter yearly refresh for certified churches: updated practice, new research, team changes, and a check-in on how your care pathway is holding up.

Certified churches only

Included with every course

You are not handed a PDF and wished well.

Every SoulSafe course comes wrapped in the support that makes training actually stick — because information alone has never changed how a church behaves on a Tuesday afternoon when someone finally says it out loud.

  • Printed and digital curriculum materials for every participant
  • A companion book written for church leaders
  • Monthly 90-minute group coaching with our team and other churches
  • Access to the private national community of SoulSafe churches
  • Confidential prayer support for your staff, for as long as you need it
  • Direct access to our team between sessions when something hard comes up

Pricing

Cost should never be why a church stays unequipped.

We price around your church rather than a fixed sticker price — it flexes with your size, your budget, and how many people you send. À la carte modules, full-program packages, and reduced rates for larger teams are all on the table. The first conversation is free.