NACA Suicide Prevention Program - 2 FREE Trainings - February 15th, 16th & 17th

The Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) Suicide Prevention Program will be doing 2 different trainings:

1. ASIST - 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:

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

2. SafeTALK  is a 3 hour workshop that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aide resources. There are many risk factors for suicide which include substance abuse, family violence, past trauma, family history of mental health disorder, incarceration, exposure to suicidal behavior, among others. Learn the signs to help identify someone who might be having thoughts of suicide. The objectives of SafeTALK are as follows:

*  To challenge attitudes that inhibit open talk about suicide;
*  To recognize a person who might be having thoughts of suicide;
*  To engage them in direct and open talk about suicide;
*  To listen to their feelings about suicide to show that they are taken seriously;
*  Apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.

Both trainings will be located at the Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corp, Conference Room. Please see the flyer & registration forms below for further details.

ASIST Flyer
SafeTALK Flyer