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We all want value for our money and return on our investments. When communities and organizations do invest in helping to save lives from suicide, they support activities likely to produce maximum benefits. LivingWorks clearly states the most desired benefit of our education and training programs: individuals at risk of suicide choose life after an intervention by a helper who uses what they learned at a LivingWorks program. People have been studying this and other effects of our programs almost since we started in 1985.
In the past few years, more and more sponsors want “evidence” of benefit. There is debate about what constitutes evidence and some forms of evidence are easier to obtain than others (see Our Core Beliefs about Suicide and Its Prevention). While much work remains to be done, we want to share with you the hard work and positive results from partners and colleagues assessing the benefits of our programs so far during 2007 alone. We congratulate and thank everyone involved in these studies and reports. Together, their new contributions affirm our belief that suicide-safer communities can happen.
USA: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL). (Certification and Training Subcommittee selects ASIST as training provider. SAMHSA approves NSPL to subcontract training partnership with LivingWorks.)
Scotland: Choose Life, Evaluation of first phase, 2006. (suicide prevention
training; i.e. ASIST, is most successful activity to be mainstreamed)
Norway: Health and Social Affairs (permanent national funding for VIVAT)
New Zealand: Lifeline (national government funds more trainings)
Australia: Lifeline (Commonwealth funding for diverse program components)
Canada: New Brunswick (ASIST is mandatory suicide intervention training for
all Family and Community Services staff)
England: Ministry of Defence (MOD) (mandatory core training for RAF psychiatric
nurses, and all new nurses and psychiatrists)
USA: Suicide Prevention Resource Centre (SPRC) Best Practice
Registry - ASIST
USA: Suicide Prevention Resource Centre (SPRC) Best Practice Registry -
safeTALK
USA: Oregon Department of Human Services, Addictions and Mental Health Evidence
Based Practices (EBP) registry
England: Dept of Health, Best Practices in Managing Risk
USA: Virginia, Curry School of Education, Evaluation of Student Suicide Prevention
in Virginia
USA: Colorado, Colorado Trust, Moving Forward with Gatekeeper Evaluation
Canada: Ontario, Trillium Health Centre. Making it safer: A Health Centre’s
strategy for suicide prevention
Scotland: Choose Life Evaluation of Scottish safeTALK pilot
Scotland: Choose Life, National evaluation of ASIST
Ireland: National Office for Suicide Prevention (Suicide prevention training
in Ireland: The role of ASIST training; Evaluation of the ASIST programme)
USA: Colorado, Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado
State University, GLS Project Safety Net evaluation
USA: NSPL (SAMHSA-funded pilot evaluation of ASIST training
for crisis hotline phone staff)
A complete listing of all evaluations of LivingWorks learning programs, or more information about any of these studies, can be obtained by contacting info@livingworks.net or at the following links (will open in a new window):