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Suicide-intervention training is now available for Marine Corps senior leaders and non-commissioned officers across 2nd Marine Logistics Group, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
The Marine Corps has begun to offer workshops for Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, known as ASIST. The ASIST course is geared toward helping others recognize aspects of suicide prevention, provide guidance to a person at risk and appreciate the value of integrating suicide prevention resources in the community.
“One of the biggest benefits I have seen from this class is it changes the culture surrounding suicide,” says Lt. Cmdr. Brandon Harding, the chaplain with Headquarters Regiment. “It makes people more aware and in tune with who might be struggling with thoughts of suicide.”
According to Harding, the course saved the life of a Sailor by two senior Service members who attended the workshop.
“As a result of the training they were able to draw out of the person [that] he planned to kill himself that afternoon,” said Harding. “Instead, the leaders plugged him into the appropriate resources and a tragedy was avoided.”
The workshop includes an intervention model, group discussions and a balance of challenge and safety.
The next course will be Aug. 8-9, 2018 at the New River Officers Club.
To sign up for the next course, contact RP3 Varner at alexander.varner@usmc.mil or call 910-451-9480.
More information about the ASIST workshops is available at www.livingworks.net.
| Date Taken: | 07.02.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 07.05.2018 12:01 |
| Story ID: | 283110 |
| Location: | CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US |
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