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ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
Fersiwn Cymraeg
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
The challenge
Every year more people die by suicide than from all the armed conflicts around the world.
In any year as many as 6 per cent of the population have serious thoughts of suicide.
How can Mind Cymru prevent further deaths and injuries?
How can we support people to choose life when something prevents them from seeing a way forward?
The workshop
Mind Cymru now provides the internationally recognised Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), which is already well established in Canada, USA, Australia, Norway, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
ASIST provides practical training for caregivers seeking to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.
Participants often include:
- people concerned about family and friends
- natural helpers and advisers
- emergency service workers
- counsellors, teachers and ministers
- mental health practitioners
- workers in health, welfare and justice
- community volunteers
Working mostly in small groups of one trainer to no more than 15 participants, ASIST uses many different teaching processes to create a practice-oriented and interactive learning experience.
Learn how to:
- recognise invitations for help
- reach out and offer support
- review the risk of suicide
- apply a suicide intervention model
- link people with community resources
What participants say about our ASIST workshops
- 'Very practical and supportive structure.'
- 'Very important first aid to be armed with, both personally and professionally.'
- 'Presentation was professional and sensitively handled. Extremely thorough and very informative.'
- 'Well delivered and thought out workshop.'
How do I sign up for a course?
- Check our latest workshop dates and venues.
- When you have chosen your workshop check out who your trainers will be for the course - this information is in the same link as the workshop dates and venues.
- To book a course with Chris and Berni please contact Julie Woolf, email: juliewoolftorfaenmind@hotmail.co.uk
tel: 01495 768 835. Cheques payable to Torfaen Mind.
- To book a course with Joyce and Alan please contact Joyce Borgs,
email: joyce.mind@btconnect.com
tel: 01970 626 225. Cheques payable to Mind Aberystwyth.
- To book a course with Carol and Gwynfryn please contact Carol Evans,
email: carolmind@ruralnet.org.uk
tel/fax: 01745 812 461. Cheques payable to Vale of Clwyd Mind.
How much does it cost and how do I pay?
The cost is £150 per person for the 2-day course or £50 unwaged. You can pay by cheque or ask to be invoiced when booking.
Your fee includes:
- your registration with Livingworks Inc
- your participants training workbook/materials
- your Suicide Intervention Manual
- your refreshments and a buffet lunch each day
- your certificate of attendance
- your trainer's fees/expenses
Please note:
The ASIST course runs for two days and will usually start promptly at 9.00am and finish at 5.00pm on both days. Because of the nature of the course it is essential that you are able to attend for the full hours on each day. If you arrive too late on any of the days or have to leave early you won't have completed the course and may have to re-sit a complete course to obtain your certificate. If this does happen a re-sit can often be arranged at no extra cost to you.
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