Our mission is to promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention through education, media, and events.Our hope is to break the stigma and equate it with all other life threatening illnesses, so that people are not afraid to come into the light and learn how to seek help through local mental health resources.
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
"Be The Change !"
ASIST: Two-day interactive workshop (Partners & Sponsors needed)
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.
Since its development in 1983, ASIST has received regular updates to reflect improvements in knowledge and practice, and over 2,000,000 people have taken the workshop. Studies show that the ASIST method helps reduce suicidal feelings in those at risk and is a cost-effective way to help address the problem of suicide.
UPCOMING ASIST TRAINING CLASSES
ASIST Training
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Coming September 23 2023
Save Cenla 5K Walk into the Light
While registration is FREE, donations are needed & appreciated!
100% of the money raised will support our efforts to lift the stigma of mental illness & prevent suicide. Register by team or individual. The animated meter indicates how much each team has contributed. The team with the greatest contributions, will be recognized at the walk which includes newspaper picture, and will be included on the following annual banner.
Registration will be held at the court house starting at 8:00 a.m.
If you would like an event shirt, please email your shirt sizes to savecenla@yahoo.com. If you would like to donate to a specific team, please click the "Donate to your team below"
Into the Light Walk Color Representation
__________SILVER (STRUGGLES PERSONALLY)
__________TEAL (LOST A CHILD)
__________GREEN (LOST SPOUSE OR PARTNER)
__________PURPLE (LOST A SIBLING)
__________PINK (LOST A PARENT)
__________RED (LOST 1ST RESPONDER/MILITARY
__________WHITE (LOST RELATIVE OR FRIEND)
__________GOLD (LOVED ONE IS STRUGGLING)
__________BLUE (SUPPORT THE CAUSE)
Donations
Educating communities to be able to better recognize the signs and how to help when our loved ones start to struggle with mental health concerns is our passion. We did not recognize those signs when Adam started to struggle and we lost him to suicide. It is our mission to train everyone 16 yrs and older in ASIST (suicide intervention) so that other families - your family, may not have to know that pain. Suicide can be prevented but we need your help. Any donation is greatly appreciated and will be used to spread mental health awareness and suicide prevention as far and wide as possible. Thank you for helping us help others.
All sponsorships will help fund SaveCenla's efforts to raise mental health awareness and prevent suicide through community education (e.g. ASIST), events (e.g. 5K awareness), and media (outreach). Every sponsor will be included on our sponsor-banner, website, and out-reach emails for one year, beginning September 2023.
Partner- Each $5,500 donation will fund one ASIST workshop for 30 people, or $8,250 for 45 people. (Research shows that within 6 months of a training, at least 60 people will have been helped).
- See above - Name on back of event shirts (5K in Sept) w/ 4 complimentary shirts
- Shout out at events and media interviews
Platinum Sponsor-
Donate $2,500 or more
- See above
- Name on back of event shirts (5K in October) w/ 3complimentary shirts
- Shout out at events
Gold Sponsor -
- Donate $1,000
- See above
- Name on back of event shirts (5K in October) w/ 2 complimentary shirts
- Shout out at events
Silver Sponsor -
- Donate $500
- See above
- Name on back of event shirts (5K in October) w/ 1 complimentary shirt
Bronze Sponsor-
- Donate $250
- See above
In-Kind Sponsors - Sponsor level will be based on Fair Market Value.
SaveCenla is a 501(c)(3); all donations are tax-deductible
Save Cenla tax ID #81-4863849