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SUMMARY:Alternatives To Suicide Peer Group Facilitators Training. NON-CLINICAL
DESCRIPTION:\nPersonal, lived experience, with thoughts or attempts of suicide is required for attendance as this is a peer-led model of support.\n\n\n\nPlease email Karisa Vandeventer at kvandeventer@mhai.net to inquire about eligibility to attend .\n\n\n\nAlternatives to Suicide (Alt2Su) is an alternative to risk assessment. Risk assessments move conversations about suicide in the direction of determining who will act on thoughts of suicide and how. Risk assessment questions include “Do you have a plan?” and “Do you have the means to carry out the plan”?\n\n\n\nIn the Alt2Su approach, instead of focusing on predicting a person’s behavior, our dialogue focuses on why they are having thoughts of suicide. Suicide itself is not framed as the problem, but understood to be the solution of a whole host of issues, such as rape culture, war, austerity, transphobia, etc. Conversations expand from why to also why not, meaning dialogue will often explore the reasons that people have chosen to stay in this world.\n\n\n\nAlt2Su is an alternative to pathology. This de-medicalized approach looks beyond “chemical imbalance” or genetic explanations for suicide. Non-clinical, human experience language is used to explore the context of suicidal thoughts. For example, if someone says “I want to die because I feel worthless” instead of responding with “What pill are you taking for that?” we might ask “Did you receive this message that you are “worthless” from a person or experience in your life?” or “What makes a person worthy in your view?” or “Was there a time before you felt this way?” \n\n\n\nThe conversation is about looking at what events in a person’s life or prevailing social messages might be driving their thoughts, rather than searching for an internal biological problem.\n\n\n\nAlt2Su is an alternative to coercion and force. We let go of trying to control behavior in the moment to focus on having a conversation, allowing the person to be heard and to consider what might make life more livable. An example of the current suicide prevention paradigm would be to remove musical instruments from a psychiatric unit because someone might hang themselves with a guitar string. An Alt2Su approach would let go of extreme “risk management measures” and instead use music as tool, while focusing on having conversations (or singing songs) about the pain that makes life difficult.\n\n\n\nThe Training is 9a-5:00pm daily. There will be a one-hour lunch break each day. Lunch is not provided however there are multiple options nearby for food, including options that deliver to the training location. Light snacks will be provided. \n\n\n\nPLEASE ARRIVE 15 minutes early to check in.\n\n\n\nParking is located along Delaware Street.\n\n\n\nThis course provides 14 CEU’s for all who complete the course. CEU’s are provided pursuant to Indiana Administrative Code 839IAC 1-6-2(F)(86).\n\n\n\nFunding for this course has been provided by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA).\n\n\n\nTraining conducted in partnership with: Wildflower Alliance\n
URL:https://indianasuicidepreventionnetwork.org/events/alternatives-to-suicide-peer-group-facilitators-training-non-clinical/
LOCATION:1441 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN
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