Faculty/Staff
Programs for Faculty and Staff
Faculty and staff members who want to be a part of the Friends Helping Friends program have two ways to participate: through the UNCG Cares Program or through safeTalk.
UNCG Cares
Through UNCG Cares, the Dean of Students Office trains faculty and staff on how to recognize and assist students in crisis; currently, 500 faculty and staff have received UNCG Cares training.
To request a training please visit The Dean of Students Office and click on the UNCG Cares logo.
SafeTALK
All RAs and Peer Academic Leaders have been trained in safeTALK. SafeTALK is a two-and-a-half to three-hour training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. Most people with thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe. Alert helpers know how to use these opportunities to support that desire for safety. As a safeTALK-trained suicide alert helper, RAs and PALs will be better able to:
- Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide.
- Identify people who have thoughts of suicide.
- Apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and Keep Safe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.
In addition, 47 faculty and staff members from around campus have completed either the safeTALK or ASIST workshop, both developed by Livingworks Education.
To request a safeTALK training for your office, please contact Jeanne Irwin-Olson at jrirwino@uncg.edu. We will accommodate as many programs as funding allows.
Links
- UNCG Cares
http://deanofstudents.uncg.edu/uncgcares/ - The Dean of Students Office
http://deanofstudents.uncg.edu/ - SafeTALK
http://www.livingworks.net/ST.php - Livingworks Education
http://www.livingworks.net/
Contacts
- Jeanne Irwin-Olson
jrirwino@uncg.edu
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Anna M. Gove Student Health Center, 107 Gray Drive 27412
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
VOICE 336.334.5340
FAX 336.334.5343