Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

Center for Suicide Prevention • Reserve

  • Workshop for Caring Communities

    Center for Suicide Prevention - Information, Training, Research Suicide is one of the most underestimated community health problems in the world. More people are dying from suicide than in all of the armed conflicts around the world and about the same or more than those dying from traffic accidents.

    For every person who dies by suicide, there are as many as 100 times more people who injure themselves from nonfatal suicidal behaviours. In any year, approximately 6% of the entire population has serious thoughts of suicide. Four to five percent of all people attempt suicide in their lifetime, one in nine have seriously considered suicide. Suicide affects people at all ages and from all backgrounds. The legacy of suicide is often a lifetime of grief, sadness, anger and confusion.

    Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research More then 3,500 Canadians kill themselves each year. These suicides can be prevented and you can help. This workshop will teach you how to recognize and assess an individual’s risk of suicide, intervention techniques, and how to manage a crisis situation.

    • Instructor: Center for Suicide Prevention
    • Audience: Any individual who may come in contact with a person-at-risk. This may include volunteers, mental health workers, teacher and counsellors.
    • Course materials provided
    • 14 hours (2 days @ 7 hours)
    • Lunch included both days
    • Tuition is due upon registering for this course.
    • Centre For Suicide Prevention
    • Alberta Centre For Injury Control & Research
    • Course NameApplied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
      Schedule2 full days, TBA
      Time 
      PlaceWainwright Provincial Building
      Tuition$
      RegisterIn advance of course date
      Class SizeMinimum / Maximum