While not a new approach, LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), is cutting edge because it teaches individuals the skills needed to help the communities in which they live, work, and play become safer from suicide. Suicide is often viewed as a dichotomy in which the person contemplating ending their life must choose between living and dying. ASIST teaches helpers there is in fact a third option, staying safe for now. Acknowledging this option calls out the ambivalence present for almost every person considering suicide. It creates the space to tell their story to an empathetic helper without fear of an immediate reaction of – “we must do everything we can right now to prevent you from killing yourself!” That space can then be used to collaboratively decide what can be done to continue staying safe for now while options are explored for addressing the root causes of their thoughts of suicide. Perhaps they need legal assistance, employment services, food or housing insecurity addressed, medical care, or mental health care. But ASIST trained helpers do not assume what is needed and are open to helping connect the person with thoughts of suicide to all viable additional sources of help and support. Almost 40 years of independent empirical research supports that a broad range of professional and lay people can learn the Pathway for Assisting Life (PAL) model taught by ASIST to help any person experiencing thoughts of suicide stay safe for now. Significant improvements in knowledge about suicide, attitudes about suicide and people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts, willingness to help, and confidence in ability to help have been found consistently. Everyone can play a role in suicide prevention and creating suicide safer communities. When communities become suicide safer, fewer people will die by suicide. ASIST trained helpers cannot accomplish that goal independently, but when they are part of a community of helpers who are well connected then people with thoughts of suicide can receive the right help, at the right time to develop hope and move beyond suicide as an option that even needs to be considered.