ASIST Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Suicide can be prevent. Anyone can make a difference.
Attend the award-winning ASIST workshop and learn to:
• recognize people at risk of suicide,
• talk to them, hear their stories, and understand their situations, then
• help them stay safe with a life-affirming intervention.
The two-day ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) workshop is open to anyone 16 or older. Widely used by both professionals and the general public, ASIST offers something to every participant, no matter how experienced.
Why take ASIST?
LIFE-SAVING: Anyone can experience thoughts of suicide. By giving participants the skills to help friends, family members, colleagues, and clients stay alive, ASIST supports suicide-safer communities.
TRUSTED: ASIST is the most widely used suicide intervention training workshop in the world. Over 100,000 people attend ASIST each year in more than 30 countries.
ENGAGING: ASIST is a dynamic, hands-on workshop that uses adult learning principles. It includes presentations, discussions, and audiovisuals, plus simulations to practice intervention skills.
PROVEN: ASIST works. A major 2013 study showed that the ASIST intervention process significantly reduces thoughts of suicide and helps people at risk feel more hopeful about living.
COST-EFFECTIVE: A 2015 RAND Corporation study found that for every $1 spent on the ASIST program In California, the state government would save $50 in medical expenses and associated costs.
Attend the award-winning ASIST workshop and learn to:
• recognize people at risk of suicide,
• talk to them, hear their stories, and understand their situations, then
• help them stay safe with a life-affirming intervention.
The two-day ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) workshop is open to anyone 16 or older. Widely used by both professionals and the general public, ASIST offers something to every participant, no matter how experienced.
Why take ASIST?
LIFE-SAVING: Anyone can experience thoughts of suicide. By giving participants the skills to help friends, family members, colleagues, and clients stay alive, ASIST supports suicide-safer communities.
TRUSTED: ASIST is the most widely used suicide intervention training workshop in the world. Over 100,000 people attend ASIST each year in more than 30 countries.
ENGAGING: ASIST is a dynamic, hands-on workshop that uses adult learning principles. It includes presentations, discussions, and audiovisuals, plus simulations to practice intervention skills.
PROVEN: ASIST works. A major 2013 study showed that the ASIST intervention process significantly reduces thoughts of suicide and helps people at risk feel more hopeful about living.
COST-EFFECTIVE: A 2015 RAND Corporation study found that for every $1 spent on the ASIST program In California, the state government would save $50 in medical expenses and associated costs.
Agenda for ASIST
The Planning Committee & Faculty attest that NO relevant financial, professional or personal conflict of interest exists, nor was sponsorship or commercial support obtained, in the preparation or presentation of this educational activity.
The Arkansas Department of Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Course Completion Requirements: Each participant must attend the full course and is required to register through www.train.org and will have two weeks after the CE Activity to complete the course evaluation on Train.
The Arkansas Department of Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Course Completion Requirements: Each participant must attend the full course and is required to register through www.train.org and will have two weeks after the CE Activity to complete the course evaluation on Train.