News/For Parents & Retailers

April 2012

Aliive-Roberts County is now offering APPLIED SUICIDE INTERVENTION SKILLS TRAINING (ASIST)

ASIST is designed to help all caregivers become more willing, ready and able to help persons at risk. Suicide can be prevented with the help of prepared caregivers.

Just as "CPR" skills make physical first aid possible, training in suicide intervention develops the skills used in suicide first aid. ASIST is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize risk and learn how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.

The workshop is for all caregivers (any person in a position of trust). This includes professionals, paraprofessionals and lay people. It is suitable for mental health professionals, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, teachers, counselors, youth workers, police and correctional staff, school support staff, clergy, and community volunteers. Please contact Sara McGregor-Okroi or call 605-698-3477 if you would like to host or participate in an ASIST workshop.

 

Aliive-Roberts County is also offering the following trainings:

Olweus Bullying Prevention Program

Available to train schools! The 3 main goals of OBPP is to:

1.   Reduce existing bullying problems;

2.   Prevent new bullying problems from developing; and

3.   Achieving better peer relations at school!

Parenting Wisely

This is a self-paced, online skill-building course to assist parents in communicating and lowering a child’s risk for problems. The entire course should take 2-3 hours total. You can complete it at home, the library, or in our office!

Training Intervention ProcedureS (TipS)

This is the responsible beverage server training class offered. The class teaches alcohol retailers how to recognize and appropriately intervene with underage and over intoxicated customers.

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