The Reality of Suicide: What Interpreters Need to Know – Part 2 - EARN CEUs

0.3 Professional Studies (PS) CEUs - RID HQ is an approved RID CMP Sponsor for continuing education activities. This Professional Studies program is offered for 0.3 PS CEUs at the little/none Content Knowledge Level.

With suicide deaths still on the rise, interpreters need to be prepared when faced with this topic in their personal or professional lives. In this workshop, we will do a brief overview of part 1, and then dive deeper into other aspects of suicide that interpreters need to know: performing sight translations of suicide screeners, interpreting calls to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, discover a new discussion board/forum style website that encourages and teaches members how to take their own lives, identify risk factors & warning signs in Deaf senior citizens and Deaf youth, and increase knowledge and confidence on how to provide (or interpret) a skilled suicide intervention i.e. you ask someone if they’re thinking of suicide and they say yes; what do you do? Presented by an interpreter sibling suicide loss survivor, and certified deaf interpreter, this workshop will continue our open and honest conversation around suicide, and how to safely and effectively apply it to our work as interpreters.

During and upon completion of this session:

1. Participants will analyze suicide screeners and practice doing sight translations,

2. Participants will be introduced to a new forum style website that encourages and teaches how to take one’s life,

3. Participants will identify risk factors and warning signs in high-risk Deaf populations, &

4. Participants will develop strategies on how to provide or interpret a skilled suicide intervention/suicide first aid.