Resolution Services Center of Central MI safeTALK

safeTALK is a half-day training program designed to fill a risk-recognition and safety-connection gap common in most communities. It aims to increase participants’ willingness and ability to recognize when a person might have thoughts of suicide, engage them in direct and open talk about suicide, and move quickly to connect them with someone able to provide a suicide first-aid intervention. The program illustrates ways people often miss, dismiss, and avoid suicide. The TALK acronym (Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe) is then introduced as a series of steps that initiate open conversations about suicide and facilitate safe connections.