AS+K? About Suicide To Save a Life Training of Workshop Leaders Virtual: March 19-20, 2024

This virtual training is being sponsored by the HHSC Disaster Behavioral Health Program.

AS+K? About Suicide to Save a Life Training of Workshop Leaders trains participants to prepare, deliver, administer, and manage AS+K? About Suicide to Save a Life workshops for community partners and stakeholders to recognize the warning signs, clues, and suicidal communications of people in psychological distress and identify what action to take to prevent a possible tragedy. AS+K? About Suicide to Save a Life Workshops are two to three-hour workshops designed for persons who work and/or interact with youth, adults, Veterans, and others who may be at risk of suicide. The AS+K? program provides workshop participants with an overview of safe messaging, the basic epidemiology of suicide, the public health approach to suicide prevention, risk and protective factors and warning signs often associated with suicide. Participants are trained to identify warning signs, language, behaviors, and characteristics that might indicate elevated risk for suicidal behavior, how to ask a person if they might be thinking about suicide, and actions to take to connect the person to qualified care. Role plays are used to develop skills on how to ask about suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. AS+K? also trains participants on how to respond to someone expressing direct suicidal communication and how to connect them to clinical care or other resources. Workshop participants also receive an overview of suicide prevention efforts in their state and how to become connected to opportunities to support these efforts in their community.

Pre-training: Participants must submit a required contact information form to their Centralized Training account. 

Training Expectations:

We ask that your camera is left on for the duration of the training. This is so that we can make sure everyone is safe, well, and engaged.

A requirement for this training is that you will provide training to the districts in your Region at least 3 times per year and report those trainings to Texas Suicide Collaborative.

A requirement for this training is that you follow the best practices guidance for delivering the gatekeeper training workshops. For online training, you will have no more than 15 participants in your training at a time. For face-to-face training, you will have no more than 30 participants in your training at one time.

A requirement for this training is that you download and print the binder of materials prior to the TOT (This will be emailed 1 week in advance of the training dates).

Training Materials: All will be emailed directly from the Texas Suicide Prevention Collaborative a week before the training.

Cancellations, Substitutions and Refunds Policy:

Live In Person/Virtual Trainings:

• A colleague may be substituted at no extra charge if Centralized Training is notified at least two business days before the training.

• Requests for refunds for an in-person/virtual workshop must be received 72 hours prior to the workshop.

Self-Paced Online Trainings:

• No refunds are offered for self-paced online trainings.

Please forward detailed requests regarding this training to CTI Helpdesk at ctihelp@uthscsa.edu

Training Location: Zoom Meeting
Webcam and audio are required for participation.
9:30am-3:00pm CST
Trainer: Faciliated by Texas Suicide Prevention Collaborative
CEUs Offered: 9 hours