Friday, June 10, 2011

NACA’S Suicide Prevention Programs

NACA provides four programs designed to prevent suicide in Flagstaff and Coconino County. All are evidenced based programs which are on the Suicide Prevention Re-sources Center’s Best Practice list and are FREE and open to everyone.

Gate Keeper Trainings

1. QPR (Question, Persuade and Refer) - takes only an hour. Learn about:

• Suicide myths and facts, clues and warning signs
• Asking the question, persuading and referring a person with thoughts of suicide.

2. SafeTALK training takes three hours. This training helps the learner 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 KeepSafe to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid).

Intervention Training

3. ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) - takes two days. Learn how to:

• Recognize invitations for help, reach out and offer support
• Review the risk of suicide, apply a suicide intervention model
• Link people with community resources

Suicide Prevention Curriculum

4. American Indian Life Skills Curriculum takes 22 weeks or one semester.

• Curriculum for Jr. High and High School students
• Designed to reduce suicidal thinking and behaviors.
• Teaches life skills such as communication, problem solving, depression and stress management, anger regulation and goal setting.

Contact info:

Native Americans for Community Action
2717 N. Steves, Ste. 11
Flagstaff, Arizona 86004
Tel. (928)526-2968
Fax (928)526-0708
Email: rbegay@nacainc.org

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