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a suicide-safer community
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John Kennedy - LivingWorksConsulting Trainer Support Person
International Quality Assurance Reader Team ASIST Senior Team Leader/ safeTALK Instructor
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Sveiki atvykę į LivingWorks Education
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Lithuania
Progressing to a national strategy through safeTALK
and ASIST
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Strategy- The Art of Fishtail Movement
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Key Stakeholders
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Lithuania and LivingWorks Unite
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TimelineDate Activity
2004
20062011
ASIST workshop conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania by Norwegian VIVAT LivingWorks trainers Dag Willy Tallaksen/Kirsti Silvola
Scotland StudyIreland Study
May -June 2014
Communication with University of Vilnius – Professor Danute Gailiene and Paulius Skruibis regarding interest in implementing ASIST; Discussions revealed great passion and interest though implementation was not feasible at the time due to funding constraints and lack of infrastructure to support a suicide prevention plan
February 2016
Reconnected with Paulius indicating new initiative and Memorandum in Vilnius for suicide prevention addressing infrastructure and funding
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Norway says ‘HELLO’ again!
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TimelineDate Activity
March –May 2016
Discussions with the Vilnius Municipality Public Health Bureau regarding strategic planning and preparation for implementation of safeTALK and ASIST LivingWorks training programs including application process of potential trainer candidates
June 2016 safeTALK and ASIST trainer candidates selected and notified by Public Health Bureau
August 2016
safeTALK and ASIST Training for TrainersLivingWorks welcomes 10 new safeTALK and 6 new ASIST trainersTranslation process begins in consultation with LivingWorks
October 2016
Suicide Prevention Conference Vilnius
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Introductions before safeTALK
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Questions after safeTALK
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Lithuania’s New ASIST Caregivers
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Lithuania’s First safeTALK and ASIST Trainers
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2 Suicide Alert and ASIST helpersBecoming a suicide-safer community
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Suicide Alertness for Everyone
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safeTALK: suicide alertness for everyone
safeTALK is a half-day training in suicide alertness.
It helps participants recognize a person with thoughts of suicideand connect them with resources who can help them to keepsafe.
Participants don’t need any formal preparation to attend thetraining.
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FOCUS: Suicide alertness training for the community
DURATION: 3 hours - 4 hours (half a day)
LANGUAGES: English and French (and soon Norwegian and Lithuanian!)
PARTICIPANTS: Anyone 15 years or older
TRAINERS: 1 Trainer and 1 Community Resource Person for 15-30 participants
12 countries have onsite Trainers with 2,500+ safeTALK Trainers worldwide
273,000+ safeTALK participants trained since 2006
safeTALK is listed in the Suicide Prevention Resource Center Best Practices
Registry (USA)
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Goals and objectives
Over the course of their training, safeTALK participants will learn to:
•Notice and respond to situations where suicide thoughts may be present
•Recognize that invitations for help are often overlooked,
•Move beyond the common tendency to miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide
•Apply the TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, KeepSafe
•Know community resources and how to connect someone with thoughts of suicide to them for further suicide-safer help.
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Why is safeTALK important?
Suicide is a community health problem that affects us all.
In each community, suicides we hearabout are only the tip of the iceberg. There are also...
•Unreported suicides (5% to 25% more)•Non-fatal suicide behaviors (40 to 100 times greater than the number of suicides)•People with thoughts of suicide (3% to 5% of the population)•People affected whenever someone dies by suicide
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LTA KTell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe
Tell (Pasakyti)
Ask (Paklausti)
Listen (Klausyti)
KeepSafe (Uztikrinti
sauguma)
safe LTA K
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16.1 Connecting with an intervention resource
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Co-Trainer 2.7.2 and slide 21
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safeTALK in Vilnius
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safeTALK in Vilnius
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Testimonials
“As a taxi driver, I speak to a surprising number of people who have thoughts of suicide. safeTALK has given me and other drivers in Kilkenny a way to help them stay safe.”
—Derek Devoy, Taxi Driver, Kilkenny, Ireland
(Derek also went on to encourage safeTALK training for all the drivers in Kilkenny)
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2 Suicide Alert and ASIST helpersBecoming a suicide-safer community
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Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
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FOCUS: Suicide intervention training
DURATION: Two days (15 hours)
PARTICIPANTS: Anyone 16 or older
TRAINERS: Two registered trainers per 15 – 30 participants
LANGUAGES: English, French, Spanish, Inuktitut, and Norwegian (and soon Lithuanian); Large print and Braille also available
11 Updated editions since 1983 for continued growth and improvement
6,300+ ASIST trainers offer workshops in over 30 countries
1,000,000+ people have taken ASIST worldwide
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• 2-day suicide First aid gatekeeper training workshop
• Standardized core curriculum
• Pioneered integration of upstream Attitude antecedents with Knowledge and Skills
• Facilitates a safety-challenge learning environment
• Developed unique suicide intervention model (PAL)
• Multiple safeplan options – including safety for now
• Common language communication
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Goals and objectives
In the course of the two-day workshop, ASIST participants learn to:
•Understand the ways personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions
•Provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person at risk in ways that meet their individual safety needs
•Identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
•Appreciate the value of improving and integrating suicide prevention resources in the community at large
•Recognize other important aspects of suicide prevention including life-promotion and self-care
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4.3.1 PAL - Bičiulis
Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL)
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3.10.2 Actions to Confirm
Safety Framework (Right now, what will keep you safe?)
Workbook Page 16
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Available ASIST Caregiver
Psychological subdivision in
the Vilnius County Police
Headquarters
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Common
qualities
Highly evolved
For all types of
caregivers
Training for
Trainers
LivingWo
rks
Programs
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Country and Number of Evaluations
Country ASIST sTALK
Australia 4 3
Canada 6 3
Ireland 1 -
Norway 4 -
Scotland 4 2
USA 16 1
Wales 2 -
Totals 37 9
Evaluations range from 1986 to
2015 Include findings on:
✓Satisfaction
✓Utilization
✓Learning
✓Portability
✓Suicide behavior Impact
✓Broader impact
✓Investment Benefit
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Kirkpatrick-Phillips Model
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Did participants like the trainings?
Summary of Satisfaction
Based on multiple evaluations, satisfaction has generally been high.
ASIST Participants:
• Good use of their time
• High quality
• Benefits were long lasting
• Better prepared them to address suicide directly
safeTALK Participants:
• Training enjoyable and worthwhile, relevant to role
• Content well received
• Acceptable to young people
• Appreciated trainer knowledge and preparedness
ASIST: Canada (2000, 2007), Norway (2003), Scotland (2005, 2007, 2008)
safeTALK: UK (2014) Australia (2015), Scotland (2007),
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Did participants learn from the trainings?
Summary of Learning
ASIST Participants:
• Greater knowledge about suicide, prevention and intervention
• Greater confidence in their ability to intervene
• Readiness to intervene increased
• Increase in knowledge of intervention skills
• Improved ability of medical students to detect suicide vs TAU
safeTALK Participants:
• More willing to talk openly about suicide and help
• More positive attitudes toward suicide and prevention
• Better prepared to recognize suicide, ask directly, connect with help
• More likely to seek help
ASIST: Australia (2000), Canada (1994, 2015), Scotland (2008), Washington (2003)
safeTALK: Scotland (2007; 2010), Australia (2015), Canada (2011)
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Did participants use the trainings?Summary of Utilization Impact
ASIST Participants:
• Increased Interventions
√ 99% applied at least one aspect of intervention model
√ More identification (18%) & risk assessment (13%) in medical setting
• Use in Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Grants
√ Most used programs by GLS grantees: ASIST (longer), QPR (shorter)
√ People in longer programs had proportionately more interventions
√ Counties with Gatekeeper trainings had reductions in suicide
behaviours compared with counties without training
• Use with serious mental illness population
√ Reduced suicide by 38% in year 1, increasing to 42% in year 2
safeTALK Participants:
• increased case management referrals
ASIST: Australia (2000), Canada (2007), Scotland (2008), USA. (2010, 2015)safeTALK: Australia (2011)
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Did ASIST and safeTALK Impact results?Summary of Results
ASIST Impact:
• National vehicle
√ raising public awareness; building longer term community capacity √ Reducing reliance on specialized professionals; sustainable resource (Scotland 2006)
• Intervention changes
√ Raised layperson Attitude/Knowledge/ Skills & interventions to level of MH professionals√ Increased networking and sense of community empowerment (Ireland 2011)
• Organization managers
√ Better able to understand and support staff experiences (Wales 2011)
• Common language
√ Better inter-agency working relationships (Wales 2011)
• Intervention outcomes
√ Less suicidal, less overwhelmed, more hopeful (Mattie Gould study 2013)
safeTALK Impact
• Established preparedness for connections with help
• Identified & connected young people at risk who had not come forward before
• Safe - no iatrogenic effects for young participants (Australia 2011/2015)
ASIST: Canada (2007), Ireland (2011), Scotland (2006, 2008), USA (2013), Wales (2011)safeTALK: Australia (2011, 2015)
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Did trainings have an investment benefit?
Summary of Return on Investment (ROI)
ASIST Benefit:
• Scotland (Choose Life, 2006)
√ Cost saving (direct & indirect costs) benefit: needed 17 fewer suicides (1.9% reduction)
on $5.5m annual investment
√ Achieved 19.5 % reduction over 10 years against 20% goal
• California (Rand, 2015)√ State gain: $50 for each $1 invested in ASIST -averted health care costs; increased
income tax revenue.
√ Individual-family gain: $1100 for each $1 invested in ASIST – medical care savings;
increased lifetime earnings.
safeTALK Benefit:• no investment benefit studies to date
ASIST: Scotland (2006), USA. (2015)safeTALK:
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National Task Force Guidelines 1998
Reach Out- Suicide Prevention Strategy
National Strategy for
Action on Suicide Prevention
2005-2014
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Connecting for Life Strategy
2015-2020
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Numbers Trained in ASIST and
SafeTALKYear SafeTALK
Workshops
SafeTALK
Participant
ASIST
Workshops
ASIST
Participants
2004 0 0 30 641
2005 0 0 80 1724
2006 11 200 150 3184
2007 30 473 151 3219
2008 31 443 152 3279
2009 58 915 159 3348
2010 199 3439 158 3461
2011 282 5100 162 3525
2012 326 6921 156 3444
2013 379 6982 154 3406
2014 319 5891 114 2509
2015 343 6353 106 2501
Total 1,978 36,717 1,572 34,241
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ASIST/SafeTALK Lithuania
SN1777 © 03/2008 LivingWorks Education www.livingworks.net
2 Suicide Alert and ASIST helpers
Becoming a suicide-safer community
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Suicide Safer Lithuania
Vilnius Lithuania August 26th 2016 First safeTALK and ASIST Trainers
along with Translators, Municipality, Public Health, University of
Lithuania, Suicide Prevention Bureau, local Politicians and LivingWorks
Team
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Lithuania
Progressing to a national strategy through safeTALK
and ASIST
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a suicide-safer community
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ASIST References (Partial)Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (2012). A review of the Operation Life suicide
awareness workshops: Report to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Brisbane, QLD: Author.
Bolton S-L, (2015). Evaluation of a gatekeeper training program as suicide intervention training for medical
students: A randomized controlled trial. Retrieved from University of Manitoba DSpace,
http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30725
Gould MS, Cross W, Pisani AR, Munfakh JL, Kleinman M (2013). Impact of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
Training (ASIST) on National Suicide Prevention Lifeline counselor interventions and suicidal caller outcomes.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 43(6), 676-691.
Griesbach and Associates (2008). The use and impact of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) in
Scotland: An evaluation. Edinburgh, Scotland: The Scottish Government, Health and Community Care.
Høifødt TS, Talseth A-G, Olstad R (2007). A qualitative study of the learning processes in young physicians
treating suicidal patients: from insecurity to personal pattern knowledge and self-confidence. BMC Medical
Education, 7:21 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-7-21
McAuliffe N, Perry L (2007). Making it safer: A health centre’s strategy for suicide prevention. Psychiatric
Quarterly, 78, 295-307.
Public Health Agency (2011). All Island evaluation of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST):
Summary report. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Author.
Evans RE, Price S (2013). Exploring organisational influences on the implementation of gatekeeper training: A
qualitative study of the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) programme in Wales. Critical Public
Health, 23(2), 213-224.
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safeTALK ReferencesEynan R (2011). Preventing suicides in the Toronto Subway System: A program evaluation. [Thesis – University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario].
Forward for Life & Common Unity (2014). Suicide prevention training in Hertfordshire: An overview of delivery of the
combined approach for suicide prevention implemented on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council Public Health
Service 2014.
Gullestrup J, Lequertier B, Martin G (2011). MATES in construction: Impact of a multimodal, community-based program
for suicide prevention in the construction industry. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
8, 4180-4196.
McLean J, Schinkel M, et al (2007). Evaluation of the Scottish safeTALK pilot. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish
Development Centre for Mental Health.
Mellanby R, Hudson NPH, et al (2010). Evaluation of suicide awareness programmes delivered to veterinary
undergraduates and academic staff. Veterinary Record, 167, 730-734.
Robinson J Evaluation of the safeTALK program in the Northern Territory. Poster session presented at: American
Association of Suicidology Annual Conference; 2016 Mar 30–Apr 2; Chicago, IL.
Martin G, Swannell S, Milner A, Gullestrup (2016). Mates in Construction Suicide Prevention Program: A Five Year
Review. J Community Med Health Educ 6:465. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000465
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Questions?
If you have further questions
Please contact:
Richard Ramsay (President LivingWorks) richard.ramsay@livingworks.net
Heather Stokes (Vice President Strategic Development) heather.stokes@livingworks.net
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