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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks is now available in South Dakota. Clinicians, paraprofessionals, other caregivers, and concerned citizens can benefit from participating in ASIST, a skills-based training that gives a community a common language about and a unified approach to suicide prevention and intervention.
Registration information for upcoming workshops:
Currently, there are no "open" workshops scheduled.
Cost: $250 (includes handbook & lunch)
--30-person limit
--14 educational contact hours1
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TRAINERS
Franklin Cook, M.A.
Unified Community Solutions, Rapid City
Janet Kittams-Lalley, M.A., L.P.C.
HELP!Line Center, Sioux Falls
Jane Ross, M.Ed., L.P.C.
Midwestern Colo. Mental Health, Montrose
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Rapid City: Unified Community Solutions
Phone: 605-209-0292
Sioux Falls: HELP!Line Center
Phone: 605-339-4357
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PARTNERS
ASIST is delivered in South Dakota in partnership with the South Dakota Strategy for Suicide Prevention (SDSSP) Workgroup. The SDSSP Workgroup is an ad hoc advisory group made up of stakeholders and advocates from across South Dakota.
SDSSP statewide initiatives are funded in part by the S.D. Division of Mental Health and the S.D. Department of Health.
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BY THE END OF THE WORKSHOP, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Deal effectively with personal and societal attitudes about suicide
Discuss suicide with an at-risk person in a direct and helpful manner
Identify an at-risk person and make a plan to help (called a safeplan)
Demonstrate the use of intervention skills for helping an at-risk person
Identify resources available to help a person at risk for suicide
Have confidence in being an effective resource yourself
Be part of a team improving the community's response to suicide
Understand issues such as life promotion and care of yourself as a caregiver
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WHAT MAKES ASIST DIFFERENT?
Connecting: Connecting gives caregivers an opportunity to clarify and examine their own attitudes toward people exhibiting suicidal behavior. Through connecting, caregivers can overcome attitudinal barriers that may hinder their learning and their helpfulness.
Understanding: Viewing a suicidal situation through the eyes of an at-risk person helps caregivers understand how to take care of that person's concerns. Caregivers practice how to apply their understanding in simulated scenarios involving suicide risk.
Assisting: Caregivers learn the Suicide Intervention Model as a framework for understanding the process of suicide intervention. Caregivers intensively apply suicide first aid, including connecting, understanding, and assisting skills in intensive practice situations.
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
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DAY ONE
8:15 a.m. Coffee/Snacks + "Meet & Greet"
8:30 a.m. MORNING SESSION
* Pre-workshop orientation
* Learning suicide first aid
* Film: "Cause of Death?"
* Suicide: Feelings and experiences
* Connecting feelings, experiences to
suicide first aid
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION
* Recognizing "invitations"
* Reasons for living, reasons for dying
* Reviewing risk
* Constructing a safeplan
* Promoting follow-up on commitments
4:30 p.m. END OF DAY 1
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DAY TWO
8:15 Coffee/Snacks + "Meet & Greet"
8:30 a.m. MORNING SESSION
* How to learn intervention through simulation
* Structure of an intervention
* Process of an intervention
* Ambivalence
* Simulation -- Case A
* Simulation -- Case B
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION
* Intensive simulations (2.5 hours)
* Resources and self-care for caregivers
* Working as a team
* Vision of the future
4:30 p.m. COMPLETION CERTIFICATES AWARDED
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REFERENCES
1. Credit for continuing education is available from the South Dakota Board of Counselor Examiners, the S.D. Board of Social Work Examiners, and the S.D. Chemical Dependency Counselor Certification Board.
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