Training

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training

 

Suicidal behaviors are associated with certain high-risk groups of young people; thus, selective intervention strategies should focus on risk reduction efforts.  Integral to reducing the rates of suicide is enhancing the skills and competencies of youth and increasing their level of resiliency.  Gatekeeper Training programs provide up-to-date information, help increase skills in assessing risky behavior, encourage help-seeking behavior and increase competencies in post-suicide interventions to prevent further suicides.  Project LIFE offers five suicide prevention gatekeeper trainings to youth and families, educators, military, clergy, mental health and health professionals and community members in Delaware.

 

ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is to help caregivers become willing, ready and be able to provide emergency first aid to persons at risk of suicidal behavior.  ASIST is a two-day workshop where participants will examine their attitudes about suicide, learn how to effectively recognize and review the risk of suicide.  All types of caregivers will benefit from participation in the two-day ASIST.

safeTALK is a 3-hour training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources.  As a safeTALK-trained suicide alert helper, you will be better able to:

  •  Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide;
  • Identify people who have thoughts of suicide;
    • Apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and Keep Safe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.

Lifelines is a Comprehensive Suicide Awareness and Responsiveness Program for middle schools.  This is a whole-school program made up of three unique components: Lifelines: Prevention, Lifelines: Intervention, Lifelines: Postvention.  This trilogy of programs is the only existing model of its kind available for schools.  The complete Lifelines Trilogy is based on over 20 years of suicide-in-youth research that indicates an informed community can help to prevent vulnerable teens from ending their lives. 

To see the 2012 Training Calendar, click here.