FSPC Taking action for Suicide Prevention 2024 Schedule
Pre Event Workshops
PCW #1: LivingWorks safeTALK: Suicide Prevention Training Suicide Alertness for Everyone
LivingWorks safeTALK is an evidence based suicide prevention training and on the SPRC best practice registry. CEU credits are also available for depending on license: https://www.ceunits.com/livingworks/ LivingWorks safeTALK: LivingWorks safeTALK prepares community members from all backgrounds to become suicide alert by using four basic TALK steps to help people with thoughts of suicide. Participants learn how to recognize and engage a person who might be having thoughts of suicide, to confirm if thoughts of suicide are present, and to move quickly to connect the person with helpers who know how to complete the helping process. LivingWorks safeTALK is meant for anyone age 15 and older who wants to promote suicide safety, regardless of previous experience or background. » Delivery: In person, up to 30 participants per workshop » Time: 3.5-4 hours.
PCW #2: Responder Readiness
Performance, Persistence, and Prevention First responders work in a world that is filled with hours of calm and moments of chaos. Couple this with everyday factors that touch our lives, and it is possible to lose our sense of purpose and drive. This course will focus on understanding physiological and psychological effects of stress and job-related trauma on the body and identify tools that can increase long term protective factors and optimize human performance under stress.
PCW #3: Is There a Case for Youth Anaphylactic Suicide
\The current CDC violence data on historically high U.S. suicide deaths, and contributions from overlapping self-injurious mortality drug deaths, attests to the awful fact that after 50 years of traditional efforts, new questions, definitions, diagnostic factors, and statistical methods are urgently required. An often unrecognized, and undiagnosed condition, termed anaphylactic suicide, demonstrates diagnostic strength, statistical consistency, and definitional epidemiologic plausibility across diverse youth populations. It is precipitated by an acute adjustment disorder (AD) in otherwise healthy, carefully assessed, drug naïve, yet vulnerable persons. It is characterized by executive dysfunction, loss of verbal and motor fluency, “hidden” ideation, and rapid, irresistible suicide attempts in less than 30 minutes in over 81 percent of cases.
PCW #4: Communication Resilience in Suicide Prevention (CRISP) Community Workshops: Co-Facilitator Training
Communication Resilience in Suicide Prevention (CRISP) is a framework derived from Communication Theory of Resilience (CTR). CTR describes resilience as non-linear, iterative, communication processes by which individuals, families, organizations, and communities adapt, and/or transform in anticipation of, or in response to, challenges, adversity, and other disruptive events. CRISP Workshops provide social connection and provide opportunities to practice CRISP strategies. The hope is that everyone who completes a CRISP workshop will create a safety plan for themself and encourage others to do so. This pre-conference workshop trains individuals on how to co-facilitate CRISP workshops in their community.