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

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Includes a Live Web Event on 09/24/2024 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

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.

Tarra Grammenos

Tarra Grammenos, M.S., SC:L, NIC Advanced (she/her)

Tarra Grammenos, M.S., SC:L, NIC Adv. holds a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice, Graduate Certificate in Legal Interpreting, Bachelor's Degree in Psychology of Deviance, and Associates Degree in ASL/English Interpreting. Born and raised in Minnesota, Tarra has been an ASL/English Interpreter for almost 20 years. Since the death of her youngest brother to suicide in 2017, Tarra has immersed herself into the field of suicidology. She attends/facilitates a monthly suicide loss survivor support group, hosts a yearly virtual ASL event for International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day in November, co-conducted a Psychological Autopsy Investigation, and is ASIST Certified (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). Tarra has traveled all over the country presenting to Interpreters and the Deaf Community about the reality that suicide is.

Laura SkyQuest, M.A., CDI

Laura SkyQuest, MA, CDI holds a Master’s Degree in Deaf Education, and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Gallaudet University. Before becoming a full-time staff Certified Deaf Interpreter, Laura was a K-12 teacher/ASL specialist working in Deaf schools for 15+ years. They know first-hand how conversations around suicide, especially with deaf children and young adults can be very challenging. Laura is ASIST Certified (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) through LivingWorks, and recently became trained as a Suicide Bereavement Support Group Facilitator by AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) and is looking forward to sharing these tools and skills with the community. Laura was born and raised in Maryland but has called Minnesota home for the last eight years.