ASIST (Applies Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a two-day skills-building workshop that prepares individuals of all kinds to provide suicide first aid interventions. Professionals, volunteers and informal helpers all need to know how to help persons with thoughts of suicide in ways that increase their suicide safety.
Learning Objectives:
Over the course of their two-day workshop, you will learn to:
- Recognize that caregivers and people are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
- Provide life-assisting guidance to a person thinking about suicide in a flexible manner
- Identify what needs to be in a person thinking about suicide’s plan for safety.
- Demonstrate the skills required to provide suicide first aid to a person thinking about suicide
- Appreciate the value of improving community resources, including the way that they work together
- Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and includes life promotion and self-care for people thinking about suicide and for caregivers
Participants also receive: a workbook, wallet card guide to use in real-life interventions, community resource list, and internationally recognized certificate.