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Events and Trainings at SPCS
Spring & Summer 2011
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Apply to be a Volunteer Crisis Counselor
Summer training for volunteers will take place in June & July. All who are interested must submit an application and schedule an interview. http://www.suicidepreventionandcrisisservice.org/spv_volunteer.html
Friday and Saturday, June 3 and 4 from 12 to 6 pm
The Listening Tent at the Ithaca Festival on the Commons in downtown Ithaca
SPCS will be putting up "The Listening Tent" as our contribution to the Ithaca Festival on Friday and Saturday afternoons, June 3 and 4th. There will be short & fun workshops on active listening skills, theatre games to expand your awareness, storytelling, and poetry, plus quiet time to sit and relax. Join us! Got a poem, short story, personal experience, or song about listening? Come share it in The Listening Tent.
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Friday, June 17, from 1 to 4 pm
safeTALK Workshop
Location: Building A-14, TST BOCES, 555 Warren Road, Ithaca.
SafeTALK is an excellent introduction to suicide intervention. This workshop uses discussion, short video dramas, and practice to enable you to identify persons with thoughts of suicide, ask about thoughts of suicide and connect those people with help. Registration fee is $35; light refreshments provided. Register now: registration@hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686.
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MASTER SPEAKER SERIES ON MENTAL HEALTH:
Learning from Each Other.
Tompkins County is rich in wisdom and expertise regarding mental health and well being. Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service is pleased to launch a master speaker series formental health providers and community members, offering an opportunity to learn from cutting edge scholars, researchers and practitioners.
MONDAY, JUNE 20TH • The “Special” Education of Black Boys: An Ecological Examination
Nia Nunn Makepeace is a native of Ithaca, New York. She has served as a school psychologist at her alma mater Beverly J. Martin (BJM) Elementary School since 2007 and has taught as an adjunct professor in the psychology department at Ithaca College. Nia has served as a director and performing arts coordinator for the Community Unity Music Education Program (CUMEP) summer camp since 2007. After completing the Human Rights Education training through the Dorothy Cotton Institute, Nia continues to be inspired to research, implement/develop curriculum, and teach peace/coexistence (egalitarianism) in her leadership roles at BJM and CUMEP. She is committed to serving as an agent of social transformation.
This series will be held at SPCS: 124 East Court St. Ithaca, NY • 7-8:30pm
Refreshments provided • $15 donation appreciated but not required.
For more information: 607-272-1505 orsuicidepreventionandcrisisservice.org |
ASIST Intensive
Cayuga Medical Center
ASIST is designed to help all caregivers become more willing, ready and able to help persons at risk for suicide. Just as CPR skills make physical first aid possible, training in suicide intervention develops the skills used in suicide first aid. ASIST is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize risk and learn how to intervene to lessen the immediate risk of suicide.
Mid August to Mid September
Apply to be a Volunteer Crisis Counselor
Fall training for volunteers will take place in September and October. All who are interested must submit an application and schedule an interview. http://www.suicidepreventionandcrisisservice.org/spv_volunteer.html
Early to Mid-September
Launch of the Reach Out Rally
Music, Anti-Stress Trainings, and the launch of our Reach Out Fundraising, which will take place through the fall and winter. Raise awareness and funds to support the work of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service with your friends and in your community.
For more information about all of these programs, call 607-272-1505 or email info@ithacacrisis.org
The mission of Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service is to promote constructive responses to crisis and trauma,
and to prevent violence to self and others through direct support and community education.
