Administration for Community Living, a team led by researchers at Georgia State University partnered with nutrition service providers in six metro-Atlanta counties (both rural and urban) to equip nutrition services volunteers to respond to homebound, isolated older adults at risk of suicide.
We trained over 160 home-delivered meal (HDM) volunteers in the 14 hour standardized and manualized Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).
ASIST has been recognized by the SAMHSA evidenced based registry, the National Registry of Evidence Based Programs (NREPP), and has been adopted by multiple states, the U.S.
Armed Forces, the Centers for Disease Control, and crisis centers throughout the country. In one of our grant studies with 493.