Suicide intervention course

Kilcullen Lions Club is offering a two-day training course aimed at making people more aware of suicide and how to intervene to prevent it.

The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is being run in conjunction with Aware, the national organisation for dealing with depression.

The event will be held in the KARE Centre (the former Cross & Passion Convent) on the weekend commencing October 9.

The Lions Club has circulated residents associations and other organisations in Kilcullen asking them to nominate participants.

The two-day course will run from 9am-5.15pm over the weekend, and full participation over the two days is required in order to receive an ASIST certificate.

Further information is available from Carmel Gleeson, secretary of the Club, at 087 9026102. Email gallaghergleeson@hotmail.com