Event & Training Types: General Webinar

Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: Improving Care through Partnerships with Crisis Centers

For those that experience suicidal crises and receive care in Emergency Departments (ED), suicide risk does not end at the moment of discharge. Their elevated risks may continue and may be rekindled in the days and weeks that follow. This webinar describes potential new roles for crisis centers in working with EDs to fill these gaps and improve continuity of care for suicidal patients after ED discharge. Three speakers with diverse expertise will highlight research, best practices, and current work to improve care for suicidal patients after an ED visit. Tools and resources available to support effective practices for suicidal patients among EDs and crisis centers will be discussed.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

* Understand the issues, research, and best practices around continuity of care for suicidal patients after ED discharge.

* Describe new roles for crisis centers and how they can partner with EDs to better serve suicidal patients.

* Describe lessons from the ED-crisis center pilot program case study.

Event Presenter(s)

David Knesper, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Chair, Adverse Event Review Committee, University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry

John Draper, PhD, Director, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Rick Oliver, PCC, Director of Crisis Services, Mental Health Services, Inc.

Continuity of Care for Suicide Prevention and Research Paper

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Bullying and Suicide Prevention

Many schools and communities are struggling to find effective ways to prevent both bullying and suicidal behavior among youth. This webinar will provide the latest research and science on the relationship between bullying and suicide and will outline some of the shared risk and protective factors. The webinar will also discuss the main principles of a comprehensive whole school approach to bullying prevention. This presentation will be interactive, with opportunities to ask questions.

Objectives: Participants will:1.Recognize the complex relationship between bullying and suicide.2.Understand key research findings related to effective bullying prevention approaches.3.Identify ways to integrate both bullying prevention and suicide prevention into school violence prevention initiatives.

Event Presenter(s)

Bennett Leventhal

Young-Shin Kim

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Sources of Strength: Preventing Suicide among High School Students through Peer Leadership and Adult Mentoring

Sources of Strength is a program that trains diverse high school students to serve as peer leaders and connects them with adult advisors at school and in the community. With support from the advisors, the peer leaders conduct well-defined messaging activities intended to change peer group norms influencing coping practices and problem behaviors (e.g., self-harm, drug use, unhealthy sexual practices). An evaluation of the program in 18 high schools found that the curriculum led to changes in peer leaders’ coping practices and connectedness with adults and to changes in norms of students in the school population. The norms most strongly enhanced were the acceptability of seeking help from adults and students’ perceptions that adults in their school could provide help to suicidal students.

This webinar will highlight the critical aspects of the Sources of Strength program, which could be replicated in other settings. It will also describe an effective approach to program evaluation. Specific attention will be given to enhancing protective factors associated with suicide at the school population level.

Objectives:
By the end of the webinar participants will be able to:
1. Describe the key elements of the Sources of Strength Program and understand how it works to decrease suicide risk.
2. Understand how data was collected and utilized to improve the program.
3. Know how one community benefitted from implementing the program.
4. Identify methods for adopting or adapting the strategies, approaches, and tools of the Sources of Strength Program for use in their own communities.

Event Presenter(s)

Presenter(s): 

Mark LoMurray, Founder and Executive Director, Sources of Strength

Diane Rosado, Peer Leader, Sources of Strength

Laura Rundell, Health Teacher and Program Leader, Elmira Free Academy

Peter A. Wyman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine

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Expanding Suicide Prevention to Include Upstream Approaches

Suicide prevention efforts have largely focused on strategies to identify and get help for those who are at risk for suicide, but suicide prevention can also occur prior to the onset of risk to prevent the development of risk. Such “upstream” suicide prevention approaches may be able to inoculate individuals against suicide. One example of an upstream approach is the Good Behavior Game (GBG), a classroom management technique for use in elementary schools. A follow-up study of students who had the GBG in first and second grade found an almost 50% reduction in suicide attempts at age 20. This webinar will highlight the GBG and its theorized mechanism for reducing suicide attempts. In addition, other upstream approaches and the role of upstream approaches within the spectrum of wellness, prevention, treatment, and aftercare strategies for suicide prevention will be discussed. The potential long-term impact of upstream approaches in preventing a wide range of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders will be discussed, along with the practice implications of such findings.

By the end of the webinar participants will be able to:

  1. Distinguish between health promotion, prevention, case identification & treatment, and aftercare strategies to prevent suicide.
  2. Describe the Good Behavior Game and why it may reduce suicide attempts later in life.
  3. Discuss, generally, the role early intervention programs can play in preventing suicide.
  4. Value the potential contributions of upstream suicide prevention approaches when engaging in strategic planning of prevention initiatives.

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The Revised National Strategy for Suicide Prevention

On September 10, 2012, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) and the US Surgeon General launched a revised National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) that will guide suicide prevention activities for years to come.  The revised NSSP emphasizes the role every American can play in protecting their friends, family members, and colleagues from suicide.  It also provides guidance for schools, businesses, health systems, clinicians, and many other sectors that takes into account nearly a decade of research and other advancements in the field since the last strategy was published. 

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the main themes of the revised NSSP.
  2. Know the strategic directions, goals, and objectives, of the revised NSSP.
  3. Understand how the revised NSSP relates to their work.
  4. Identify the key differences between the revised and the original NSSP.
  5. Obtain tools for sharing the NSSP with their partners and colleagues.

Event Presenter(s)

Presenter(s): 

Jerry Reed, PhD, MSW, Director, Suicide Prevention Resource Center; Co-Lead National Strategy Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention

Daniel J. Reidenberg, PSY.D., FAPA, DAPA, BCPC, CRS, CMT, Executive Director of Suicide Awareness Voices of Education; Managing Director of the National Council for Suicide Prevention

Richard McKeon, PhD, MPH, Chief, Suicide Prevention Branch, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Morton M. Silverman, MD, Senior Advisor to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center; Senior Medical Advisor to The Jed Foundation

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Developing Crisis Protocols and Legal Considerations for Student Mental Health

This is the third webinar in the training program for new campus GLS grantees. This webinar will highlight key considerations for developing or revising campus crisis protocols, and legal considerations for student mental health. Julia Graff, Staff Attorney from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and M. Dolores Cimini (University of Albany, alumni grantee) will be presenting.

http://edc.adobeconnect.com/p9pwpoyeihv/

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Guidelines for Responding to Students in Crisis at the University at Albany

University at Albany Faculty & Staff 911 Guide

Webinar series on faith-based approaches to preventing suicide and promoting mental health.

These two webinars provide information on suicide prevention for faith community leaders and on how to promote protective factors.  

The first webinar in this two webinar series is Overcoming the Tragic: A Positive Pastoral/Rabbinic Approach to Mental Health which discusses a pastoral/rabbinic approach to supporting parishioners and clients struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. This approach employs Biblical narratives to promote a capacity to activate and mobilize resiliency. It is designed for faith leaders, pastoral counselors and mental health clinicians.  The second, The Role of Faith Leaders in Suicide Prevention provides information that faith leaders need to know about suicide prevention (myths, warning signs, how to help, etc.). It will also offer ways faith leaders can help educate their communities about mental health issues and provide support for persons whose loved ones have died by suicide. In addition, it will help them understand and strengthen the resources they have in their own faith tradition that promote mental and spiritual health and/or can help in suicide prevention.

Overcoming the Tragic is available in its entirety but due to technical difficulties only the slide and handouts are available for The Role of Faith Leaders.

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Working with Sub-grantees and/or Regions in your Grant Area: A Panel and Audience Roundtable

Your grant’s success may depend on the contributions of your sub-grantees and/or regional partners. In these cases, the ability to support their work through building capacity, providing effective oversight where appropriate, and fostering and sustaining relationships is essential. Join a panel of expert discussants who will share their experiences in providing TA, helping bring sub-grantee groups together, strategizing for effective oversight, and maintaining relationships once formal agreements have ended.

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