Recognized as the gold standard in suicide intervention training, LivingWorks ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a two-day, interactive and in-person workshop in suicide first-aid. You will learn to become ready, willing and able to intervene with someone who has thoughts of suicide and help them develop a safety plan, access help, and find hope.
“I took this training close to when I was retiring. 27 years in and one of the best courses I attended. Very eye opening and useful. Fantastic course!”
Event Information:
Date August 12 (Tue) – 13 (Wed)
Times: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM, Both Days
Location Oak Hill Church, Bloomington, MN (Link to website)
Lunch: Lunch will be provided both days (included in the cost)
Lodging: Not provided.
Registration:
By July 15 - $100
By July 31 - $150
After July 31 - $200
Presenters
Chaplain Michael Heuer
Chaplain, Colonel, USAF, Retired
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Chaplain, Colonel (Ret) Michael H. Heuer is a native of North Tonawanda, New York. After North Tonawanda High School, he attended Buffalo State University before transferring to Bob Jones University in South Carolina, where he earned a B.A. in Music (1977), the M.A. in Religion (1980), and a Ph.D. in Religion (1988), serving as an instructor of German and Greek languages while in graduate school. He later also earned the M.Ed. in Counselor Education from the University of Puget Sound (1990) and the Master of Military Operational Art and Science from Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama (2001).
As an active duty chaplain, he served at Lowry AFB and Buckley AFB in Colorado, Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Maxwell AFB in Alabama, RAF Alconbury (UK) as Installation Chaplain, HQ Air Force ISR Agency (TX) as Agency Staff Chaplain, Joint Base San Antonio (TX) as Senior Joint Base Chaplain, and two assignments at Fort Meade (MD), first as Wing Chaplain of the 70th ISR Wing, and later in his final active duty assignment as Staff Chaplain to the Director, National Security Agency, in addition to serving in and visiting at several deployed locations.
Chaplain Heuer retired as a Colonel from the United States Air Force Chaplain Corps on 1 January 2018, with 33 years of total service in Reserve and Active components, having been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal. He has published in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society as well as other periodicals and has served as an adjunct instructor for the University of Maryland, the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps College, and Denver Seminary. He is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a trainer for two Living Works Education suicide prevention programs as a Training-for-Trainers (T4T) Coach in the safeTALK suicide alertness program and a Registered Trainer in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). He serves as Director, Ministry to the Armed Forces, for the Church of the Lutheran Brethren, in which role he also endorses chaplains to serve in the Department of Defense. Recently Dr. Heuer was selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of “Who’s Who in America.” He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Sheryl and has two sons, Mike (35) and Stefan (31), as well as a grandson Josiah (3).
Chaplain Glen L. Bloomstrom
Chaplain (Colonel) USA, (Ret)
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Since 2012, Glen served as the Director, Faith Community Engagement at LivingWorks Education where he partnered with clergy, faith leaders, seminaries, denominations, faith communities, Department of Defense and veterans’ groups to prevent suicide through education and intervention training. Glen has also served as an Adjunct Professor for Pastoral Counseling at Bethlehem Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he specialized in pastoral counseling and marriage education. Glen retired from full time work employment with LivingWorks in December 2024.
Since his retirement in 2011 Glen has worked with several initiatives focused on suicide prevention. He developed and facilitated a professional development training course: “Pastoral Care in Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention” to Navy chaplaincy personnel worldwide. He developed a post-graduate certificate course focused on PTSD, moral injury and suicide intervention for chaplains attending the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa Florida. Glen has served as a plenary speaker at the American Association of Suicidology annual conference and the Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition. In 2020 Glen completed development of an on-line suicide prevention-training program entitled LivingWorks Faith, for clergy and faith leaders to deepen knowledge and strengthen confidence in helping those experiencing suicide behaviors. This training is informed by the Suicide Prevention Competencies for Faith Leaders: Supporting Life Before, During, and After a Suicidal Crisis developed by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and published in 2019, a project for which Glen served as a co-lead. Since 2021, Glen has collaborated with the Minnesota Department of Health and Agriculture with several initiatives focused on Minnesota rural clergy.
From 2008-2011, Glen culminated his 30 years of active duty with 18 months of deployment during his final 36 months as part of Joint Special Operations Task Forces in the Central Command Area of Operations supporting combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations.
Following post-graduate education in Marriage and Family Therapy in 1996, Glen specialized in chaplain training in soldier, marriage and family ministry. Assigned to the Pentagon, as Action Officer and Director of Ministry Initiatives for the Chief of Chaplains and later to the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This ministry phase focused on strategic initiative development, lessons learned and research on marriage and family programs, deployment support, combat stress and suicide intervention programs including the initial development, oversight and implementation of the Army’s Strong Bonds program that evolved from a unit best practice to a multi- component marriage resilience program that included research by the National Institutes of Health. Glen’s early operational assignments included units of the 82nd Airborne Division, 10th Special Forces Group, 75th Ranger Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, at battalion, brigade and division levels, with combat support for the invasion of Grenada, peacekeeping in Egypt and combat in Panama. Among his military awards are the Bronze Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Combat Action Badge, Ranger Tab and the Master Parachutist Badge with Combat Star.
His civilian education includes Bachelor of Arts, Bethel College St. Paul Minnesota, Master of Divinity, Bethel Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN, Master of Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan Kansas, Master of Strategic Studies from the US Army War College and is a 2006 graduate of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program. Glen was a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) from 1996 - 2022.
In 2012 he was nominated to be a member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Faith Communities Task Force. Has served as co-chair of the Minnesota Suicide Prevention Task Force Subcommittee on Suicide Postvention. In 2022 he became an Elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Glen grew up in the Army, the son of a career Sergeant Major. He and his wife Ruth have three grown children who serve in the military or vocational ministry. Glen and Ruth now reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota.