Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
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ASIST is a two-day workshop designed for members of all caregiving groups to ensure that they are prepared to provide suicide first aid help as part of the care they provide.
The emphasis is on teaching suicide first-aid to help a person at risk stay safe and seek further help as needed. Participants learn to use a suicide intervention model to identify persons with thoughts of suicide, seek a shared understanding of reasons for dying and living, develop a safe plan based upon a review of risk, and become involved in suicide-safer community networks. The learning process is based on adult learning principles and highly participatory. Skills development occurs through mini-lectures, facilitated discussions, group simulations, and role plays.
This is a two-day event (from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm) taking place in the USask campus, in the PAC.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
- Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
- Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
- Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
- List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide, including themselves
- Make a commitment to 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
AUDIENCE
- Open to all. Ages 18+
- Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; natural helpers and advisors; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers.
- Contact Carla Chabot, Executive Director at (306) 935-2240 for more details.
CERTIFICATE AND ACCREDITATION
- All participants who complete the course (14 hours of instruction time) will receive a certificate of participation.
Event Details
- When:
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- Time:
- 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM CST
- Location:
- College of Kinesiology Physical Activity Complex 87 Campus Drive Room: PAC 234 Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B2