Suicide Prevention and Crisis
Intervention Workshop
* THIS WORKSHOP IS AVAILABLE FOR PRESENTATION BY BLACK BEAR
Day 1:
Introduction
The Center: Adaptation to Place -- Cultural Reinforcement
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Worth
- Self-Identity
Drawing the Center -- Hands on Exercise
Lunch:
Moving Away from the Center -- Historical Trauma
- Colonialism and Genocide
- Displacement
- Boarding Schools
- Suppression of Language and Culture
- Alcoholism
Day 2:
Information on Suicide:
- National and Regional Statistics
- The Psychology of Suicide --
- Individual and Community responses to traumatic events
- Identification of High Risk Individuals -- "Who is at Risk?"
- Clustering Phenomenon
Warning Signs and How to Recognize Them
Lunch:
Socio-Gram
- Individual and Community social and historical graph of events
- Tribal Experience with Suicide
- Wind River, White River, and Passamaquoddy
Day 3:
Healthy Ways of Coping
Intervention Strategies
Crisis-Intervention Team
- Identification and Mobilization of Resources
- Tribal Support
- Safe Houses
- Peer Counseling
Lunch:
Formulation of the "Plan"
Identification of Tasks and Assignment of Tasks
Review and Closing
HOME (Frames)
(No Frames)| SUICIDE PREVENTION | CRISIS INTERVENTION |
ART & HEALING | WISDOM
OF THE ELDERS |
SITE MAP & RESOURCES