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safeTALK for organizations:
Why was safeTALK developed?
safeTALK is a new LivingWorks’ suicide alertness program that teaches community members to recognize persons with thoughts of suicide and to connect them to suicide intervention resources. safeTALK is our response to a long-known need for:
- a short program (2.5–3.5 hours)
- taught by one trainer with groups of up to 30 participants
- to learn abilities that complement the work of ASIST and other intervention-trained caregivers
What is safeTALK?
safeTALK prepares community members of all kinds to be suicide alert helpers in only a few hours. safeTALK participants are aware that opportunities to help a person with thoughts of suicide are sometimes missed, dismissed and avoided. They want persons with thoughts to invite their help. They know the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) and can activate a suicide alert. As a part of the KeepSafe step, they connect persons with thoughts to persons trained in suicide intervention. Helpers trained in suicide intervention complete the helping process or link the person with more specialized help.
Why should my organization use safeTALK?
safeTALK is your way to maximize your investment in ASIST training. safeTALK and ASIST complement each other. ASIST caregivers complete the process that safeTALK helpers start. The more people who are suicide alert, the more the skills of those trained in suicide intervention will be used. Together, these two programs provide a cost-effective way to ensure that more persons at risk are recognized and receive the help they want.
A carefully crafted set of helping steps and the use of creative educational processes make it possible for up to 30 people in your community to leave safeTALK willing and able to be suicide alert helpers. safeTALK is the result of some 20 years of work at learning how to develop useful suicide prevention abilities in a short program.
Educationally, safeTALK "fits" with ASIST. It uses compatible language and concepts. Both flow from the same assumptions about persons at risk and about the helping process. The attention to helper attitudes and respect for persons at risk dominates both. The balance between safety and challenge, structure and openness are other common elements.
ASIST trained helpers provide backup at safeTALK trainings and represent living examples of intervention help that suicide alert helpers can use. The concluding section of ASIST encourages support for safeTALK training and for working with connections from suicide alert helpers. Suicide-safer networking is built into both programs.
The roles of both the suicide alert and ASIST helpers are valued. While some taking safeTALK will also want to take ASIST, many will be content with the contribution they can make as a suicide alert helper.
Contact Helen Moore, for details regarding arranging and attending the Safe TALK sessions.We can arrange SafeTALK sessions to fit within your staff teams / community groups timings.
safeTALK for participants:
Why should I come to safeTALK?
In only a few hours, you will learn how to provide practical help to persons with thoughts of suicide. Expect to leave safeTALK more willing and able to perform an important helping role for persons with thoughts of suicide.
How does safeTALK help prevent suicide?
safeTALK prepares you to be a suicide alert helper. You are aware that opportunities to help a person with thoughts of suicide are sometimes missed, dismissed and avoided. You want persons with thoughts to invite your help. You know the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) and can activate a suicide alert. As a part of the KeepSafe step, you connect persons with thoughts to persons trained in suicide intervention. Helpers trained in suicide intervention complete the helping process or connect the person with more specialized help.
Why use safeTALK to learn to become alert?
A carefully crafted set of helping steps and the use of creative educational processes make it possible for you and up to 30 others in your community to leave safeTALK willing and able to be suicide alert helpers. safeTALK is the result of some twenty years of work at learning how to develop useful suicide prevention abilities in a short program.
What happens at safeTALK training?
Expect to be challenged. Expect to have feelings. Expect to be hopeful. See powerful reminders of why it is important to be suicide alert. See how to activate an alert. Ask questions and enter discussions. Learn clear and practical information on what to do. Practice the TALK steps. Conclude with practice in activating a suicide alert.
Why is safeTALK for everyone?
Most persons with thoughts of suicide go unrecognized—even though most all are, directly or indirectly, requesting help. Without safeTALK training, these invitations to help are too rarely accepted, or even noticed. With more suicide alert helpers, more people with thoughts of suicide will get connected to the intervention help they want. Suicide alert helpers are part of a suicide-safer community.
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