Sheridan’s Social Service Worker Program is proud to bring you Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training sessions.
The ASIST workshop is intensive, interactive, practical, practice-oriented, and is designed for: Caregivers (professionals, volunteers, students and family members) who want to feel more comfortable, confident, and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. The goal of ASIST is to: enhance a caregiver’s ability to assist a person at risk to avoid suicide.
By completing the workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
2. Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
3. Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
4. Recognize that suicide prevention than suicide intervention, and includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and life promotion
EVENT DETAILS:
When: April 29th & 30th
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Where: Sheridan College, Davis Campus in room H224
Cost: $150
To register email tinamsw@yahoo.ca
Event flyer, click here.
Training run by:
Tina Gandhi, B.A., M.S.W.,R.S.W.,
Maria Macias,
