ASIST Training Gives Participants Skills to Help Combat Suicide (Audio)

A group of people are better prepared to deal with people at risk of suicide after completing the ASIST program in Nain.

Sandra Dicker is the Youth Coordinator with the Nunatsiavut government’s Division of Youth, Elders and Recreation.

She says a group of people completed the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training workshop last week.

The training gives the participants the skills needed to help prevent the immediate risk of suicide.

Dicker says the group ranged from youth participants to community counselors and an RCMP member.

Dicker says they also offered a postvention workshop.

That workshop taught the participants how to deal with the people who are affected by a suicide.

Click here to hear Dicker discuss how to spot somebody that may be contemplating suicide and who they can turn to for help.