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Trainings and Trainers
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Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention Sponsored Trainings
- Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention Start Flyer
Start training teaches valuable suicide prevention identification skills to everyone 13 and older and requires no formal training or prior experience in suicide prevention. Participants will learn a powerful four-step model to keep someone safe from suicide, as well as practice the model through impactful simulations. This training is completed online, individually and can typically be done in 90 minutes.
- Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) Training Requirements
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) training teaches best practices recommended by the nation's leading experts in the research and delivery of suicide care. Expert trainers lead this one-day training teaching skills for providing compassionate care to people at risk for suicide through videos, live demonstrations, and paired and written practice. This training can be delivered virtually or in-person and is for social workers, professional counselors, therapists, psychologists, physicians, and psychiatrists.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Training Requirements
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day face-to-face workshop featuring powerful audiovisuals, discussion, and simulations. Participants will learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, providing a skilled intervention, and developing a safety plan to keep someone alive. ASIST is a gatekeeper training geared towards anyone who is strategically positioned within a community/organization to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide (e.g. parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, case workers, coaches, law enforcement, etc.).
- Transforming Youth Suicide Prevention Start Flyer
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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
https://www.livingworks.net/asist
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don't need any formal training to attend the workshop-anyone 16 or older can learn and use the ASIST model.
Certified Trainers in Michigan (*willing to travel)
Name Location Email Lisa Clavier* Statewide KierstensRide@outlook.com Sarah Derwin Marquette (U.P.) sderwin@mqto.org Anne Kramer* Statewide ack@umich.edu Erica Saum* Oakland County easum@jfsdetroit.org Mary Schalk* NE Michigan mary@nemcpi.org Barb Smith* Statewide sosbarb@gmail.com Amelia Lehto Metro Detroit a3lehto@hotmail.com Maricela Alcala* Kalamazoo MAlcala@gryphon.org Kaitlyn Bollwahn* Fowlerville weberkt317@gmail.com Lindsay DeCamp* Fowlerville ldecamp13@gmail.com Laurin Jozlin* Oakland County laurin.jozlin@gmail.com Ashley Kipp* Kalamazoo akipp@gryphon.org Jacqueline List* Caro jacquelinelist@listpsych.com Michelle Rose-Armstrong Ypsilanti* mrosearmstrong7@ycschools.us Amanda Strigel* Allegan amanda.strigel@gmail.com Karen Marshall* Ferndale karenmmarshall55@gmail.com Ursula Walther Sault Ste. Marie ursula.w.walther@uscg.mil Steffany Wilson* Oakland County steffwilson81@gmail.com -
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR)
https://www.sprc.org/training-events/amsr
AMSR is a one-day training workshop for behavioral health professionals. The 6.5-hour training program is based on the latest research and designed to help participants provide safer suicide care.
Certified Trainers in Michigan
Name Email Cindy Ewell Foster cjfoster@umich.edu Ashley Jenema AJenema@up-pathways.org Kathy Lewis-Ginebaugh kathy.lewis@wmich.edu Marcy Rosen mjrosen51@gmail.com -
QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention
QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention is a 1-2 hour educational program designed to teach lay and professional "gatekeepers" the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond. Gatekeepers can include anyone who is strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of suicide (e.g., parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, coaches, caseworkers, police officers). The process follows three steps: (1) Question the individual's desire or intent regarding suicide, (2) Persuade the person to seek and accept help, and (3) Refer the person to appropriate resources. Trainees receive a QPR booklet and wallet card as a review and resource tool that includes local referral resources. The training is delivered in person by certified QPR gatekeeper instructors or online.
Certified Trainers in Michigan
Name Location Email Sarah Derwin Marquette (U.P.) sderwin@mqtco.org Tracy Fay Van Buren County tfay@vbcmh.com Tonette Brown Garner Muskegon bgarnert@muskegoncc.edu Tanequa Hampton Kalamazoo thampton@gryphon.org Emily Pratt Marquette epratt@mqtco.org Michael Pyne (Master Trainer) Muskegon Michael.Pyne@healthwest.net Andrea Smith Detroit/Wayne County asmith1@dwmha.com Scott Teichmer Muskegon scott.teichmer@healthwest.net -
safeTALK Training
https://www.livingworks.net/safetalk
safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone 15 or older, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don't truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.
Certified Trainers in Michigan (*wiling to travel)
Name Location Email Vicki Barnes West Branch vicbar48756@yahoo.com Lisa Clavier*
East Jordan kierstensride@outlook.com Jennifer Fisher Kalamazoo fisheje@bronsonhg.org Nickole Fox* Madison Heights nickolefox@gmail.com Stacy Gatz* Eaton County sgatz@eatonresa.org Julie Helmer Kalamazoo jhelmer@iskzoo.org Anne Kramer* Ann Arbor ack@umich.edu Jacqueline List Caro jacquelinelist@listpsych.com Randolph Miota St. Joseph randolph.miota@spectrumhealth.org Kay Ross Lenawee County kross@lcmha.org Erica Saum* Oakland County ericasaum@gmail.com Mary Schalk Rogers City mary@nemcpi.org Kristen Smith Kalamazoo ksmith134@michigan.gov Barb Smith* Saginaw barb.smith@srrn.net Darius Watkins* Detroit dwatkins8@emich.edu -
suicide to Hope
https://www.livingworks.net/programs/suicide-to-hope/
suicide to Hope is a workshop for clinicians and other professional helpers who are, or would like to be, involved in ongoing suicide care for people, once they are safe. It assumes that participants are familiar with suicide intervention and can provide suicide first aid. While LivingWorks’ ASIST is not a prerequisite, it is recommended as one way to learn suicide first aid and provides background for suicide to Hope’s learning processes and tools.
Certified Trainers in Michigan (*willing to travel)
Name Location Email Anne Kramer* Statewide ack@umich.edu Erica Saum* Oakland County esaum@jfsdetroit.org -
Suicide Prevention Community Technical Assistance Meeting
- Youth Suicide Prevention Community Technical Assistance Meeting