Building Hope and Motivation with Suicidal Clients in Criminal Justice

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Working with justice-involved adults brings many challenges, among which are assessing the likelihood of future harmful acts and forming trusting relationships with clients in order to help them become productive members of society. One challenge that is often overlooked by those working with justice-involved clients is understanding and intervening when clients become suicidal.

In this webinar interview, host David Prescott and interviewee Nathalie Cyr, Senior Training Consultant for the New Brunswick Department of Justice, explore methods for helping suicidal people involved in the justice system. Among the skills they discuss are those used in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Motivational Interviewing.

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Nathalie Cyr
Senior Training Consultant and Motivational Interviewing Trainer, Department of Justice and Public Safety

For the past five years, Nathalie Cyr is a Senior Training Consultant and Motivational Interviewing Trainer for the Department of Justice and Public Safety in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. Prior to that, she served as a Probation Officer for 20 years. Ms. Cyr is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, a Master Trainer for Livingworks’ Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), and a Trainer for users of the Level of Service Assessment (LS-CMI and YLS-CMI.