Agora’s first ever 'ASIST Training' set for Sept. 6-7
UNM’s Agora Crisis Center will host a two-day training session titled, ‘The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training’ on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-7 in the conference room at the PNM building located in Alvarado Square at 414 Silver Ave. S.W. in downtown Albuquerque.
This training is designed for people from all walks of life to become empowered to take appropriate actions when confronted with a person who may be considering suicide. This two-day, 16 hour training is for administrators, managers, employees, students, parents, neighbors, community leaders, service members and anyone else who is concerned about the epidemic of suicide.
Two Agora employees received the ASIST training in New York this past summer. The training, which is an internationally recognized, standardized and evidenced base training method, typically costs trainers $9,000 a person to become certified to teach ASIST.
New Mexico consistently ranks among the top five states for highest suicide rate and suicide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in the state. There is a suicide every 16 minutes in our nation. All this offers proof that suicide training is desperately needed.
Agora plans to conduct more of these trainings in the future for many more people can help family, friends and neighbors in need.
For more information contact Jeremy Jaramillo at (505) 615-9042.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu