Description

Many training opportunities focus on the development of intervention skills for identifying and helping individuals at risk for suicide. As worthwhile as these are, they do not address the problem of suicide at the community level. Developing community based strategies to reduce suicide and its impact requires additional knowledge and skills.

This four day training opportunity, based on the publication by the same name is concerned with mobilizing communities  towards reducing suicidal behaviour and its impact. It is a strengths based approach based on a process referred to as CURE. CURE stands for Community, Understand, Respond and Evaluate. The training encourages participation by a cross section of community representatives from health, education, human services, faith groups, government, human services, first responders volunteers, etc. By the end of training participants will have developed a deeper understanding of community based strategies, challenges in mobilizing communities, designing activities that draw on the strengths of the community rather than focusing on deficits. Participants will also learn a framework for constructing a community based strategy (ies).

Details

Training can accommodate up to 30 participants with a minimum number of 15 in order to proceed. In order to maximize the benefits and accomplish training goals participants need to make a commitment to attend all four days. Employers are also required to indicate their support for their employees participation and help protect their time.

Training Schedule: Note - all training days begin at 8:45 am and finish at approximately 3:30 pm. If the day starts later the sessions run later.

Day One - Orientation and Community Module

• Introduction and Orientation
• Identifying participants concerns and establishing training goals.
• Rationale for a Strengths-Based approach
• The CURE Framework
• Identifying Community strengths, skills, success stories and resources

Day Two - Understand

• Identifying the problem - more than statistics
• History of the Problem
• Recognizing the challenges to change
• Framing the problem for community involvement

Day Three - Respond

• How we think about the problem determines how we approach the problem
• How the problem is structured
• Identifying where the community can begin or build.
• Engineering for success
• Developing a strategy

Day Four - Evaluate

• Why Evaluate
• Types of Evaluation - Quantitative and Qualitative
• Developing an appropriate evaluation strategy.
• Identifying what was learned and waht can be added to Community Strengths
• Putting it all together

If you are interested in this training, please contact 1 613 746-2884 or email at dave.masecar@rogers.com

Planning / Costs

A planning guide which lists costs can be obtained by emailing dave.masecar@rogers.com.

David Masecar, M.A., C. Psychological Associate