ASIST Workshop

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Location: Provost Adult Learning & Literacy - Provost Provincial Building

Region(s): East Central

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Is for everyone 16 or older who wants to be able to provide suicide first aid. 

Shown by major studies to significantly reduce suicidality, the ASIST model teachs effective Intervention skills while helping to build suicide prevention networks in the community.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize and review risk, and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world.

Learning Objectives

The goal of ASIST is to enhance a caregiver’s abilities to assist a person at risk to avoid suicide. By completing the workshop, participants will be able to:

• 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; and,
• recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and for caregivers.

Registration Deadline July 22, 2016.

Cost: $120.00 per person

For more information or to register, contact:

EEOC Provost Adult Learning & Literacy
780 753 2822 or email programs@provostlearning.ca