Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a fifteen-hour, evidenced-based training designed to help participants recognize and review risks of suicide and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Graduated skill development is achieved through mini-lectures, facilitated discussions, group simulation and role play.
Community - Based Trainings
Prevention Educators provide a wide array of educational sessions for citizens, children and adolescents. Relying on the prevention strategy of information dissemination, Preventionists provide active and entertaining sessions at summer camps, in the community and for faith-based groups to educate others about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.
Community Health/Resource Fairs & Events
Community health fairs provide a unique opportunity to partner with local organizations and businesses to expose individuals to resources that can compound the benefits of wellness, health and exercise. Health fairs offer educational and interactive events designed for outreach on topics such as, but not limited to, tobacco, cholesterol checks, blood pressure checks, mammograms, grief and loss, alcohol, heroin, marijuana, proper disposal of medications, mental health, suicide, and more.
Lock & Talk
Lock and Talk Virginia is a project to prevent suicides by restricting access to firearms and poisons during a mental health crisis by educating members of the public how to recognize and respond to the warning signs of suicide. The program promotes safe and responsible care of guns, medications and other means of harm. Promoting safe and responsible care of guns, medications and other means of harm by providing trigger locks, support material for gun retailers and ranges, and educational brochures and posters.
Mental Health First Aid/Youth Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is an 8 - hour public education program designed to give people the skills to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to recognize & respond to the warning signs of specific illness.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour public education program which introduces participants to the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents, builds understanding of the importance of early intervention, and teaches individuals how to help an adolescent in crisis or experiencing a mental health challenge. Mental Health First Aid uses role playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect young people to professional, peer, social and self-help care.
safeTalk
safeTALK is a three-to four-hour training that prepares participants to recognize invitations and connect a person with thoughts of suicide to intervention resources.
Substance Abuse Intervention Program (SAIP)
Substance Abuse Intervention Program is an alternative to expulsion for middle and high school students who are found to be under the influence of or in possession of alcohol or other drugs, paraphernalia, or look-alikes. SAIP is a ten-day, thirty-hour program with an emphasis on drug and alcohol education and problem-solving skills. Contact: Patricia Crumrine, (757) 385-0815, PCrumrine@vbgov.com
Tobacco Retailer (Merchant Education)
The Synar Amendment is a federal mandate requiring all states and territories to enact and enforce a law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors and supports retail compliance with Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) guidelines via merchant education.