LivingWorks (registered as LivingWorks Education Inc.) is a public service corporation focusing on understanding and preventing suicide.
Founded in 1983 by four human service professionals from the fields of
psychiatry,
psychology and
social work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...
, their original
suicide intervention
Suicide intervention is a direct effort to prevent a person or persons from attempting to take their own life or lives intentionally.
Asking direct questions is a recommended first step in intervention. These questions may include asking abo ...
programs were developed in collaboration with the governments of
Alberta and
California, and the
Canadian Mental Health Association.
More than 1,000,000 community participants have been trained in suicide intervention skills through LivingWorks since 1983, including such diverse organizations as the U.S. Army and Irish Welfare department workers.
"Welfare staff to get suicide awareness training"
'' Irish Times'' (August 8, 2009), accessed November 16, 2011.
Programs
LivingWorks programs focus on developing suicide awareness through programs such as suicideTALK, and safeTALK. Their Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) program is built to teach people how to intervene with people who are actively having thoughts of suicide.
The organization trains people in communities to lead programs locally through a network of trainers across Canada, Australia
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, Norway and the United States, with smaller cores in Guam, Hong Kong, Russia and Singapore.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.livingworks.net/
Mental health organizations in Canada
Suicide prevention