This course is not an approved for NBCC credit

This exam should only be taken if you have personally attended and completed a LivingWorks ASIST workshop. If you have not attended a workshop, please visit https://www.livingworks.net/ for dates and locations.

The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshop is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. . ASIST prepares caregivers of all backgrounds to provide suicide first aid to persons at risk of suicide. The course is designed to help caregivers learn how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide and provide safety-for-now.

This exam will cover intervention attitudes, knowledge, skills and supports that you learned in the workshop.

Learning Objectives

The goal of ASIST is to enhance a caregiver's abilities to assist a person at risk to keep-safe-for-now. By completing the workshop, you will be able to:

• Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide.
• Provide life-assisting guidance to persons at risk in a flexible manner.
• Identify what needs to be in a person at risk's plan for safety.
• Demonstrate the skills required to provide suicide first-aid to a person at risk of suicide.
• Describe the value of improving community resources including the way that they work together.
• Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and caregivers
• Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.

This course is not an approved for NBCC credit hours

safeTALK teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. safeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The safeTALK learning process is highly structured, providing graduated exposure to practice actions. The program is designed to help participants monitor the effect of false societal beliefs that can cause otherwise caring and helpful people to miss, dismiss, or avoid suicide alerts and to practice the TALK step actions to move past these three barriers.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the professional will:

• Challenge attitudes that inhibit open talk about suicide.
• Recognize a person who might be having thoughts of suicide.
• Engage them in direct and open talk about suicide
• Listen to the person’s feelings about suicide and show that they are taken seriously.
• Move quickly to connect them with someone trained in suicide intervention.