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1. ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
2. safeTALK: Suicide alertness for community members
3. suicideTALK: An exploration in suicide awareness

1. ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

ASIST is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize risk and learn how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.

Suitable for all persons in positions of trust: mental health professionals, nurses, physicians, teachers, counselors, youth workers, police and correctional staff, school support staff, clergy, and community volunteers.

Includes a 110-page Suicide Intervention Handbook. Prepared caregivers can help prevent suicide.

Check the On-site Workshop Calendar for ASIST dates and to register.

2. safeTALK: Suicide alertness for community members

safeTALK is a new 3-hour suicide alertness program that teaches community members to recognize persons with thoughts of suicide and to connect them to suicide intervention resources.

Opportunities to help a person with thoughts of suicide are sometimes missed, dismissed and avoided. Participants learn the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) and can activate the suicide alert.

Check the On-site Workshop Calendar for safeTALK dates and to register.

3. suicideTALK: An exploration in suicide awareness

suicideTALK is a new 2-hour exploration in suicide awareness. Organized around the question: "Should we talk about suicide?" it provides a structure in which session members can safely explore some of the most challenging attitudinal issues about suicide and encourages every member to find a part that they can play in preventing suicide

For more information or to book one of these workshops for your organization please contact us at 416-789-7957 ext 260 or workshops@cmha-toronto.net