Participate in a LivingWorks ASIST™ Workshop
The Suicide Prevention Training Institute offers the The LivingWorks ASIST™ (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) workshop.
It is the world's leading suicide intervention training program which provides evidence-based educational opportunities to become advocates for suicide prevention.
This training is for anyone who wants to help prevent suicide.
Trusted by professionals yet learnable by anyone, LivingWorks ASIST™ is the only workshop of its kind. Updated continually to reflect new knowledge, LivingWorks ASIST™ has been empowering people to provide skilled, life-saving interventions for over 35 years.
Like all of LivingWorks' core programs, LivingWorks ASIST™ is evidence-based. Here's what over 30 peer-reviewed studies and government reports on LivingWorks ASIST™ found:
- Improves trainee skills and readiness
- Safe for trainees, with no adverse effects from training
- Interventions shown to increase hope and reduce suicidality
- Training shown to increase general counseling and listening skills
- Saving lives and costs, yielding return on investment of up to 50:1
LivingWorks, has partnered with CEUnits® to offer continuing education (CEU) credits for ASIST™ participation. You can learn more at the CEUnits website.
You can participate in the training by attending or hosting an event. Training cost is dependent upon the number of participants. Please contact us for details.
Benefits of Suicide Prevention Training
Respond to individuals who are facing suicidal crisis
Suicide affects more than the person with suicidal thoughts… It affects family… friends… and YOU
Learn the warning signs for someone who is at risk for suicide and develop a plan for safety that can protect life!
Suicide can be prevented
Who Is This Training Right For?
The LivingWorks ASIST™ workshop is for anyone who wants to help prevent suicide. Anyone can learn these skills. The training is particularity powerful for people in and working with at-risk communities.
Meet One of Our Trainers
Dr. Derrick "TC" Copper
SPTI Executive Director
Our Training Team includes certified Living Works ASIST™ Trainers that bring a myriad of behavioral health expertise to the team. It is led by our executive director, Dr. Derrick "TC" Copper.
Dr. Copper is a counseling psychologist, Executive Director of the Suicide Prevention Training Institute, and Navy Veteran. He provided behavioral health services to the Department of Defense, U.S. Army, Army Substance Abuse Program for 35 years.
In each of his assignments, Dr. Copper was deeply involved in suicide prevention education efforts and during his tenure with the U.S. Army, he became a certified LivingWorks ASIST™ Trainer. Dr. Copper’s expertise includes individual counseling, group counseling, prevention education, and crisis intervention and debriefings, in support of deployed and redeployed soldiers and their family members.
Following retirement, Dr. Copper’s commitment to suicide prevention education remained of paramount importance resulting in the establishment of the Suicide Prevention Training Institute.