Since 2019, the University of Iowa has used the program Kognito to train faculty, staff and students on suicide prevention. Recently, Kognito has undergone updates to provide more customized experiences depending on if the participant is staff, faculty or a student, allowing for more relevant and effective learning experiences for each audience.
The following is from the Daily Iowan article:
Barry Schreier, a UI director of higher education programming at the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health, said Kognito expanded the faculty and staff modules.
“There used to be a single staff and faculty module,” Schreier said. “Now, when you go into it, it says, ‘Are you staff, or are you faculty?’ and depending on what it is, you then head down different roads.”
Schreier added the scenarios in the faculty and staff modules have been updated to be more realistic and inclusive.
“[Kognito has] done a lot of making it even more real-world, much more representation, much more representative of who the students are,” Schreier said. “I think their scenarios are just much more complex, and the guidance has gotten even better.”