NACA Suicide Prevention Program FREE Training

The Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) Suicide Prevention Program will be doing a 2-day  training that serves as an intervention for people at risk of suicide. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day practical workshop developing skills through observation and supervised simulation in large and small groups. ASIST is intended as 'suicide first-aid' training. ASIST helps caregiver’s to become more willing, ready and able to recognize and intervene effectively to help persons at risk of suicide. With over one million people trained in suicide intervention skills, ASIST is by far the most widely used suicide intervention skills training in the world.

The goal of ASIST is to enhance a caregiver’s abilities to assist a person at risk to avoid suicide. By completing the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide;
2. Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner;
3. Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them;
4. Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide;
5. List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide, including themselves;
6. Make a commitment to improving community resources and networking; and,
7. Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and for caregivers.

We would like to invite you to attend this FREE 2-day training on January 9^th & 10^th, 2012 at the Flagstaff Aquaplex. Click here for the flyer & registration form for further details.