Suicide Prevention Symposium - A Training Day for Faith Leaders

1407 Cedar Avenue North,Glencoe MN 55336

02 February, 2023

Description

Open to faith leaders and workers from all walks of faith. Learn about the critical role faith leaders can play in preventing deaths by suicide, how to support those affected by suicide, and helpful community resources that are available. Event Details Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 Time: 8:00am-3:30pm Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1407 Cedar Avenue North, Glencoe, MN Registration fee: $30 (includes lunch) Pre-registration is required Open to faith leaders from all walks of faith (pastors, priests, youth leaders, other church workers, etc,). A certificate of attendance will be available. Agenda: 8:00-8:30am: Check in, continental breakfast, fellowship 8:30-8:40am: Welcome by Pastor Jon Niebuhr, Host Pastor, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church & suicide loss survivor 8:40- 9:30am: Training context overview by Glen Bloomstrom, Living Works Director of Faith Community Engagement 9:30-10:00am: 2B CONTINUED introduction & personal story by Tammy Diehn, Executive Director & suicide loss survivor 10:00-10:15am: Break 10:15-11:15am: Presentation by Pastor Peter Preus, retired LCMS pastor, author & suicide loss survivor 11:15-12:00pm: Lunch (meal included) 12:00-3:00pm SafeTALK Training 3:00-3:30pm: Closing by Glen Bloomstrom, Living Works Director of Faith Community Engagement About SafeTALK: SafeTALK is an evidence-based training that teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who might be having thoughts of suicide and to connect them with community resources trained in suicide intervention. SafeTALK stresses safety while challenging taboos that inhibit open talk about suicide. The ‘safe’ of safeTALK stands for ‘suicide alertness for everyone’. The ‘TALK’ letters stand for the practice actions that one does to help those with thoughts of suicide: Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe. The safeTALK learning process is highly structured, providing graduated exposure to practice actions. The program is designed to help participants monitor the effect of false societal beliefs that can cause otherwise caring and helpful people to miss, dismiss, or avoid suicide alerts and to practice the TALK step actions to move past these barriers. Six 60-90 second video scenarios, each with non-alert and alert clips, are selected from a library of scenarios and strategically used through the training to provide experiential referents for the participants.