Join Us Tuesday, April 15, 2014!
American Teens in Crisis is a conference designed to equip, empower and encourage parents, educators, counselors, youth workers, clergy and anyone who is a part of a youth support system.
Be equipped and empowered with up to date information on current topics of concern and take away practical tools of implementation. Be encouraged to continue the positive and important work that you are doing. You are making a positive impact! Together we can make a difference one child at a time.
American Teens in Crisis: Teens Under Stress is focusing this year's efforts to empower adults in coping with current teen issues, improving communication and increasing commitment to today's youth.
What is SafeTALK? FAQ
Q: Why should I come to safeTALK?
A. In only a few hours, you will learn how to provide practical help to persons with thoughts of suicide. Expect to leave safeTALK more willing and able to perform an important helping role for persons with thoughts of suicide.
Q: How does safeTALK help prevent suicide?
A: safeTALK prepares you to be a suicide alert helper. You are aware that opportunities to help a person with thoughts of suicide are sometimes missed, dismissed and avoided. You want persons with thoughts to invite your help. You know the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) and can activate a suicide alert. As a part of the KeepSafe step, you connect persons with thoughts to persons trained in suicide intervention. Helpers trained in suicide intervention complete the helping process or connect the person with more specialized help.
Q: Why use safeTALK to learn to become alert?
A: A carefully crafted set of helping steps and the use of creative educational processes make it possible for you and up to 30 others in your community to leave safeTALK willing and able to be suicide alert helpers. safeTALK is the result of some twenty years of work at learning how to develop useful suicide prevention abilities in a short program.
Q: What happens at safeTALK training?
A: Expect to be challenged. Expect to have feelings. Expect to be hopeful. See powerful reminders of why it is important to be suicide alert. See how to activate an alert. Ask questions and enter discussions. Learn clear and practical information on what to do. Practice the TALK steps. Conclude with practice in activating a suicide alert.
Q: Why is safeTALK for everyone?
A: Most persons with thoughts of suicide go unrecognized-even though most all are, directly or indirectly, requesting help. Without safeTALK training, these invitations to help are too rarely accepted, or even noticed. With more suicide alert helpers, more people with thoughts of suicide will get connected to the intervention help they want. Suicide alert helpers are part of a suicide-safer community.
Q: Does safeTALK quality for the new Indiana State Suicide Prevention Training requirement for teachers?
A: Yes. SafeTALK is on the list of suicide prevention and intervention trainings. It can serve as a guide for Indiana graduating teachers who are completing their requirements for licensure - (Indiana requires a course in suicide prevention - House Senate Bill 4 - IC20-18-2-22(b)). SafeTALK is also on the training list for teachers seeking and/or needing continuing education units (CEU's) or professional growth points (PGP's). (Suicide prevention / intervention is one of the continuing education topics for current teachers).
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Q: Are CEU credits available?
A: Yes. 3.0 CEU credits are being offered at the American Teens in Crisis Seminar for safeTALK.
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