ASIST Training: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

January 30-31, 2024 8 AM – 4 PM (both days)

Hosted by: Veterans Leadership Program
2934 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA

Cost: FREE

Learn the skills. Suicide is Preventable. Help save a life.

** Free CEUs will be provided in EMS/LSW/LPC/LMFT from UPMC.

Questions? Call 878-208-8186 or email pag109@pitt.edu

Register using the QR code or https://rb.gy/j4oea

ASIST is a two-day, highly participatory workshop in which participants learn to use a suicide intervention model to identify individuals with thoughts of suicide, seek a shared understanding of reasons for dying and living, develop a safety plan based upon a review of risk, and learn how to provide active follow-up.

• Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide.
• Discuss suicide in a direct manner with someone at risk.
• Identify risk alerts and develop related safety plans.
• Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide.
• List the types of resources available to a person at risk, including themselves.
• Make a commitment to improving community resources.
• Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide first-aid and includes life promotion and self-care for caregivers.