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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) The ASIST program is a standardized two-day (15-hour) suicide intervention training

Website: https://www.livingworks.net/ Presented by: Chi Sigma Iota: Chi Epsilon Chapter

Participants must be present for the full 15 hours to receive the ASIST credential. GSU College of Education & Human Development, Room 150

30 Pryor Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM each day

Suicide is the 10th ranking cause of death in the US, and the 2nd leading cause of death for young persons. Approximately one person dies by suicide every 12.8 minutes, and there are approximately 1,028,725 suicide attempts annually, which translates to one attempt every 31 seconds (American Association of Suicidology, 2015). Recent research-based estimates (Cerel, 2015) suggest that for each death by suicide, 115 people are exposed which translates to 4.7 million impacted persons annually. While suicide is irrevocable, the 25 attempted suicides for every completion can be responded to, as can suicidal ideation. Program Description

ASIST is a 2-day, 15-hour suicide intervention training that positions attendees to provide a life assisting intervention at the moment it is needed the most. Participants learn the PAL model (Pathway for Assisting Life), which has been adopted by the U.S. Armed Forces, the Centers for Disease Control, whole states, as well as used in crisis centers across the nation. Participants trained in ASIST report feeling more competent and confident to work with a person-at-risk of suicide (Griesbach et al., 2008; McAuliffe & Perry, 2007; Turley et al., 2000) and are found to have pre-post increases in suicide intervention skills, attitudes about suicide, and knowledge about suicide (Griesbach et al., 2008; Rodgers, 2010; Shannonhouse, Lin, Shaw, & Porter, in press; Turley, Pullen, Thomas, & Rolfe, 2000). ASIST aims to enhance a caregiver’s abilities to help a person at risk avoid suicide, and it values the experiences and contributions that participants bring and encourages people to share actively in the learning process. This program encourages honest, open and direct talk about suicide

Participants will learn to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide, and respond in ways that help increase their immediate safety. Specifically, participants are able to: • Dialogue with a person at risk of suicide in a direct manner • Understand how their attitudes and beliefs about suicide affect their responder behavior • Understand how one’s caregiving role shifts depending upon if the person at risk is a client, student,

family member, co-worker, friend, and/or community member, etc. • Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide first aid and includes life-promotion • (For research purposes participants will take a pretest and posttest)

GSU Students &

GSU Faculty Friday, March 11, 2015

Saturday, March 12, 2015

Registration information below

Affiliation Cost Student CSI Members $40.00 Student Non-Members $45.00

GSU CSI Faculty GSU Non-Members

$50.00 $55.00

School Counseling

Students Only Friday, March 4, 2015

Saturday, March 5, 2015

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Presenter Information

Laura Shannonhouse, Ph.D., LPC, NCC Dr. Shannonhouse is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Master Trainer (ASIST). She has facilitated ASIST Trainings in the K-12 school context, university context, and with counselors-in-training. She has provided clinical outreach to marginalized populations both domestically and internationally (e.g., illness-related trauma in South African cities; post-Katrina charter teachers in New Orleans; community scale grief in and response to Mexican community after a daycare center fire disaster; southeast Asian refugees in

metropolitan NC; post-earthquake Haitian refugees and urban homeless in FL, Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica, etc.) which has positioned her to understand and respond to the complex needs of diverse communities. Her scholarship focuses in the areas of crisis intervention/disaster response, marginalization and multicultural training, and community engagement. She has received research and best practice grants from the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors and Chi Sigma Iota International. She has received several awards, including the Courtland C. Lee Multicultural Excellence Scholarship Award from the American Counseling Association, the Courtland C. Lee Social Justice Award from the Southern Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors (SACES), The Marian Pope Franklin Fellowship from the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at UNC Greensboro, and was selected as an Emerging Leaders Fellow by SACES, and as a Leadership Intern and Fellow by Chi Sigma Iota International.

Yung-Wei Dennis Lin, Ph.D., NCC Dr. Yung-Wei Dennis Lin is a certified trainer of Applied Suicide Intervention Skill Training (Trainer ID: n26778). Dr. Lin has provided 9 ASIST training workshops and completed a large scale empirical study with Dr. Shannonhouse on ASIST model with public K-12 schools and flagship university in rural areas (N > 200). Dr. Lin is an assistant professor at the New Jersey City University. His expertise areas include play therapy, filial therapy, child and adolescent therapy, quantitative research, and meta-analysis. Dr. Lin has presented in national and local conferences including American Counseling Association (ACA), Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), American Association of Suicidology (AAS), Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC), Association for Play Therapy (APT), North Atlantic Region

Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (NARACES), Maine Counseling Association (MeCA), and Texas Counseling Association (TCA). Registration Website: https://secure.touchnet.com/C20797_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=201&SINGLESTORE=true Cancellation/Refund Policy Cancellations must be received in writing seven days prior to the conference to receive a refund and are subject to a $25.00 processing fee. No refunds will be made after Monday, February 29, 2015 ADA Accommodations Accommodations will be made in accordance with the law. If you require ADA accommodations please contact Katie Lowry (404-413-8012) at least two weeks before the conference date so arrangements can be made. Further Questions Contact Katie Lowry at 404-413-8012 or kmlowry@gsu.edu visit our website at http://cps.education.gsu.edu Department of Counseling & Psychological Services College of Education & Human Development, Georgia State University 30 Pryor Street, SW, Suite 950 Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404-413-8012 Fax: 404-413-8013