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ASIST participants learn to:
- Understand the ways personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions
- Provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person at risk in ways that meet their individual safety needs
- Identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
- Appreciate the value of improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community at large
- Recognize other important aspects of suicide prevention including life-promotion and self-care
ASIST uses internationally recognized best practices customized to be relevant to students, employees or concerned citizens. Instructors maintain a balance of challenge and safety. As an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) trainee, or, ‘suicide first responder’, you will be better able to:
- Recognize and assist a person at risk to avoid suicide
- Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
- Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
- Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
- Learn about the facts of suicide and dispel the myths
- Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
- List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide
- Make a commitment to advocacy, improving community resources and networking
- Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and for caregivers.
Lunch and healthy snacks will be provided. Parking is FREE upon request.
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