The "ASK" Workshop, Assessing for Suicide in Kids, is the only suicide prevention workshop that specifically addresses suicide risk in children and gives participants developmentally appropriate strategies and tools to identify young children at risk of suicide and quickly gather and organize key details needed to assess risk and inform safety planning.
Without help, children thinking of suicide may become teens who act on those thoughts. In just one day, we can teach you what to look for, how to respond, and what to do, that can make a life-saving difference for a child at risk of suicide.
The workshop will be delivered by experienced and accredited trainers from Preventing Suicide Workshops.
The ASK workshop takes place over 9 hours, across two consecutive days from 9:00am - 1:30pm.
The course is delivered via zoom
Overview
• The online “ASK” workshop challenges commonly held notions about children's’ capacity to consider suicide.
• It facilitates awareness of the signs that a young child may be at risk and what is needed to help. Case studies and simulations provide opportunities to apply what is learned.
• A brief screening tool guides helpers to determine risk and make appropriate referral connections.
• A helper tool teaches how to organize and summarize the available information about a given child in a form that can be used by someone, perhaps the participants themselves, in safety planning.
• Common challenges in working with parents and possible solutions are addressed through guided simulations and discussion.
• Participants are typically helpers who routinely come into contact with children age 5-14
Learning objectives
The desired learning outcomes of The "ASK" Workshop are that participants will:
• recognize how a child’s understandings of death and suicide may be implicated in risk;
• become aware of the ways children at risk of suicide communicate their need for help;
• recognize factors that may increase suicide risk and those that may mitigate it;
• know how to work with both in order to formulate the basis of a plan for safety;
• recognize the need to enlist the support of others to develop a plan for safety;
• understand and be able to meet common challenges in working with parents to facilitate safety.
Participants of The "ASK" Workshop leave better equipped to reduce the risk of suicide and enlist help for young children.
For more information, visit www.lifelineworkshops.com
The ASK workshop takes place over 9 hours, across two consecutive days from 9:00am - 1:30pm Participants must attend for the entire duration of the workshop.
Participants are asked to read pre-workshop material, sent a week prior to the course date.
The cost of the course is £80 per participant
Discounted rates are available for those working across Cumbria , please get in touch for more details
