Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Event date: -
Event type: Single day (a day or less)
What you will learn in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)...
- The most up to date research, theories, statistics, and myths related to suicide
- The River of Suicide – Key aspects of suicide prevention and postvention, with a focus on suicide intervention (also known as suicide first aid)
- How your attitudes about suicide and the relationship you have with a person who is having thoughts of suicide will affect your willingness and effectiveness to engage in the role of their caregiver
- The PAL Model (Pathways to Assisting Life), utilizing a critical set of tasks caregivers must perform in order to meet the needs of a person thinking about suicide
- How personal experiences with suicide play a major role in your effectiveness as a caregiver
- Simulations that allow the PAL model to come to life through in-depth practice of newly learned skills
- Suicide Safer Communities – Resources available for people thinking about suicide and how to help them navigate within the system to access various agencies and organizations dedicated to helping
To register please email tammywhelen@gmail.com
Training is run over 2 consecutive days from 8:45am to 4:00pm each day.
Participants who attend both days of this powerful 2-day workshop will receive an ASIST certificate from LivingWorks Inc., the creators of this program that has proudly trained over 2 million people worldwide since 1983.