Valley Community Services Board
Valley Community Services Board
Prevention Services
Prevention Services
Dial 988 or text “Hello” to 741741 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
The purpose of the Prevention Services Department is to offer strategies and evidence-based prevention programs relating to substance misuse prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health promotion across the lifespan. For more information, contact our Prevention Services Coordinator at 540-213-7599.
If you feel you are in a crisis call the Lifeline at 988. People have called for help with substance misuse, economic worries, relationship and family problems, healing from abuse, depression, mental
and physical illness, and even loneliness.
Suicide Prevention Resources
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Dial 988, text “Hello” to 741741 or visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Lock and Talk VA https://lockandtalk.org/
Suicide Prevention Resource Center https://www.sprc.org/
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention https://afsp.org/
Substance Misuse Prevention Resources
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Teens: Drug Use and The Brain https://teens.drugabuse.gov/teens
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Talk. They Hear You. https://www.samhsa.gov/talk-they-hear-you
Partnership to End Addiction https://drugfree.org/prevention-and-taking-action-early/
Opioid and Stimulant Prevention Resources https://www.beginwithhope.org
Mental Health Promotion Resources
Mental Health America https://www.mhanational.org/
Seize the Awkward https://seizetheawkward.org/
SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline – 1-800-985-5990 or visit https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline
Prevention Training
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Length: 16 hours
Audience: Anyone 18 +
Min/max: 8 – 30 participants with 2 trainers, 14 – 45 participants with 3 trainers
“Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don't need any formal training to attend the workshop—anyone 16 or older can learn and use the ASIST model.”
safeTALK
https://www.livingworks.net/safetalk
Length: 4 hours
Audience: Anyone 15 +
Min/max: 10 – 30 participants
“safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone 15 or older, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.”
Mental Health First Aid
Length: 8 hours
Audience: Anyone 18 +
Min/max: 5 – 30 participants
“Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.”
REVIVE!
http://www.dbhds.virginia.gov/behavioral-health/substance-abuse-services/revive
Length: 1 hour
Audience: Anyone 18 +
Min/max: 5 – 30 participants
“REVIVE! is the Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Education (OONE) program for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Currently REVIVE! provides training on how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose emergency with the administration of naloxone (Narcan ®). Lay Rescuer trainings are between 1-1.5 hours long. This training covers understanding opioids, how opioid overdoses happen, risk factors for opioid overdoses, and how to respond to an opioid overdose emergency with the administration of Naloxone.”
Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities
Length: 1 hour to 4 hours
Audience: Anyone 18 +
Min/Max: 5-30 participants
“In over thirty locations across the country, amazing people like you are using ACE Interface materials to improve understanding of how experience affects the life course. We are generating compassion, creativity, and confidence. The presentations we give and the dialogues we facilitate inspire a wide range of actions that build more effective communities and support parents so that they can prevent high ACE Scores in the next generation. Across the country, people are gaining a common language and a common understanding of the science. Together, we are reaching to people in all sectors and disciplines. Trainers are working in many different environments, from living rooms to board rooms, developing what we call "Self-Healing Communities.”
VCSB Prevention Services
VCSB Prevention Services
VCSB Prevention Services can facilitate presentations around substance misuse, mental health, and other prevention-related topics.
Call the Prevention Services Coordinator at 540-213-7599.
Community Resources
