Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
The ASIST workshop is recognized as the best-attended, most thoroughly researched gatekeeper training in the world. This two-day workshop is based on principles of adult learning, it uses large and small group discussion, award winning audiovisuals, workbooks, mini-lectures, and role plays.
Modules explore caregivers’ attitudes toward suicide as they relate to the caregivers ability to recognize and intervene in times of suicide risk, teach participants how to recognize when a person may be at risk of suicide and how to assess the degree of immediate risk; introduce a proven “CPR-type” model; and allow participants time to practice precisely what to say to a young person at risk of suicide to keep that person alive until the next level of help can be contacted. For more information about ASIST, visit http://www.livingworks.net/AS.php
safeTALK
Complementing ASIST, safeTALK helps to create suicide-safer communities. safeTALK is a 3 hour training for everyone in the community, designed to ensure that people with thoughts of suicide are connected to helpers who are prepared to provide first-aid interventions. safeTALK is designed to be used in organizations and communities where there are already ASIST-trained caregivers. Suicide alert helpers are part of a suicide-safer community.
Awareness Presentations
Designed for community members, awareness presentations are appropriate for local churches, schools, and any community organizations. Project LIFE can customize presentations based on your individual needs.
Campus Connect
In place at the University of Delaware, Campus Connect is a gatekeeper training program for college and university faculty, staff and students. The experientially based training is designed to enhance participants’ knowledge, awareness and skills concerning college-student suicide. Specifically, the program aims to increase knowledge about suicide statistics, risk and protective factors, warning signs and referral resources; to increase empathic listening skills, communication skills and the ability to ask someone if he or she is thinking about suicide; and to increase self-awareness concerning the potential emotional reactions gatekeepers may experience when interacting with students in crisis.
For more information, contact Dr. Charles Beale, University of Delaware Center for Counseling and Student Development, at (302) 831-2141, or visit www.udel.edu/counseling