ASIST Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

We have places available on the 2 days ASIST training provided by New Pathways

Date: 24/25 March 2025 9am – 5pm

Venue: Committee Room A and Members Lounge The Gwalia Llandrindod Wells LD1 6AA

Please book your places via email practice.development@powys.gov.uk

Aim

ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first-aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety.

Participants don’t need any formal training to attend the workshop—ASIST can be learned and used by anyone.

Goals and objectives

In the course of the two-day workshop, ASIST participants learn to:

• Understand the ways personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions
• Provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person at risk in ways that meet their individual safety needs
• Identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
• Appreciate the value of improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community at large
• Recognise other important aspects of suicide prevention including life-promotion and self-care

ASIST trainers

ASIST workshops are facilitated by a minimum of two registered trainers who have completed a five-day Training for Trainers (T4T) course.