Second session of a 4-session virtual workshop series on keeping suicide prevention going after the end of your GLS grant. The series will help your grant team create a sustainability action plan for your community/communities’ suicide prevention work. It is for 2nd year GLS grantees. Each session will build on the previous sessions. You are welcome and encouraged to have as many of your team participate as is helpful to you, but please register separately for each individual who will join.
Event & Training Types: General Webinar
Advances in Suicide Prevention: Research, Practice, and Policy Implications for LGBT Populations
In its efforts to address behavioral health disparities, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has prioritized the goal of suicide prevention among vulnerable populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. Despite strong indications of elevated risk of suicidal behavior in LGBT people, limited attention has been given to research, interventions, or suicide prevention programs targeting these populations. This webinar will offer participants up-to-date information about what is already known about LGBT suicide risk across the lifespan as well as what is being done to improve future research.
Learning Objectives:
- Review what is known about suicide risk among LGBT populations across the lifespan.
- Identify gaps in research and describe how this impacts our understanding of the scope of the problem and design of prevention strategies.
- Describe new work to develop and test a protocol for collecting postmortem data on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Explain a research-based health and mental health family support model that helps ethnically- and religiously-diverse families to support their LGBT children.
- Identify relevant resources available to researchers and practitioners.
Please note that we do not offer CEUs or certificates for this webinar.
Dr. Russell will report on the findings of an expert panel focused on the need to better understand suicidal behavior and suicide risk in sexual minority populations. He will summarize existing research findings; he will also share recommendations for addressing knowledge gaps and applying current knowledge to relevant areas of suicide prevention practice.
Dr. Haas’s presentation will focus on recent efforts to address the critical need for valid, generalizable data on the sexual orientation and gender identity of individuals who die by suicide. This will include a brief review of how the lack of systematic data about suicide mortality among (LGBT) people significantly limits our understanding of suicide risk in these populations, and hence our ability to develop and implement appropriate and effective intervention and prevention strategies. Recently, agencies and organizations responsible for collecting and reporting on mortality data convened to address this challenge. Dr. Haas will report on the outcome of this meeting and describe the next steps in a ground-breaking effort to determine the manner and causes of suicide mortality among LGBT people. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of opportunities for participants to become involved in this work.
Dr. Ryan will provide information about recent developments in the Family Acceptance Project, a research, intervention, education and policy project that helps ethnically and religiously diverse families to support their LGBT children in the context of their family, culture, and faith communities. This research-based family support model includes counseling strategies, assessment tools, and multicultural family education materials to help parents, foster parents, and caregivers prevent health risks, including suicide, and promote their LGBT children’s well-being.
Event Presenter(s)
Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D., is Interim Director of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Arizona. He is also Distinguished Professor and Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair in Family and Consumer Sciences, and Director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families. Stephen conducts research on adolescent pregnancy and parenting, cultural influences on parent-adolescent relationships, and the health and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. He received a Wayne F. Placek Award from the American Psychological Foundation (2000), was a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar (2001-2006), a Distinguished Investigator of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2009-2011), a board member of the National Council on Family Relations (2005-2008), and was elected as a member of the International Academy of Sex Research in 2004. He is Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
Ann Haas, Ph.D., is Senior Consultant to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). She has been with AFSP since 1999, previously holding positions as Director of Research and Senior Director of Education and Prevention. Her research and prevention activities have focused on suicide and suicide risk in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations, teens and college students, and veterans. She was lead author of a 2011 consensus report, Suicide and Suicide Risk in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations: Review and Recommendations, which appeared in the January 2011 edition of the Journal of Homosexuality. In May 2014, Dr. Haas organized and co-chaired a convening of federal, state and professional agencies on postmortem collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data. She has served on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Task Force on LGBT Populations, and is a frequent national speaker on topics related to LGBT suicide risk. Before coming to AFSP, Dr. Haas was Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Sciences at The City University of New York, and held appointments at New York Medical College and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Montrose, NY.
Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., ACSW, is the Director of the Family Acceptance Project. Dr. Ryan is a clinical social worker who has worked on LGBT health and mental health for nearly 40 years. She received her clinical training with children and adolescents at Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Ryan pioneered community-based AIDS services at the beginning of the epidemic; initiated the first major study to identify lesbian health needs in the early 1980s; and has worked to implement quality care for LGBT youth since the early 1990s. She started the Family Acceptance Project with Dr. Rafael Diaz in 2002 to help diverse families to decrease rejection and prevent related health risks for their LGBT children – including suicide, homelessness and HIV – and to promote family acceptance and positive outcomes including permanency.
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Creating a Legacy Workshop #4
Fourth session of a 4-session virtual workshop series on keeping suicide prevention going after the end of your GLS grant. The series will help your grant team create a sustainability action plan for your community/communities’ suicide prevention work. It is for 2nd year GLS grantees. Each session will build on the previous sessions. You are welcome and encouraged to have as many of your team participate as is helpful to you, but please register separately for each individual who will join.
Zero Suicide Webinar: The Emerging Zero Suicide Paradigm
The programmatic approach of Zero Suicide is based on the realization that suicidal individuals often fall through multiple cracks in a fragmented and sometimes distracted health care system, and on the premise that a systematic approach to quality improvement is necessary. Essential dimensions of suicide prevention for health care systems (health care plans or care organizations serving a defined population of consumers such as behavioral health programs, integrated delivery systems, and comprehensive primary care programs) have been identified as necessary for a comprehensive approach.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to (1) describe the seven dimensions of Zero Suicide and how they differ from the status quo of suicide care and (2) discuss the tools and recommended next steps for health care organizations seeking to adopt a Zero Suicide approach.
Framework for Successful Messaging: A primer for state suicide prevention coordinators
Public messages about health and suicide prevention can be helpful or harmful. Even well-intentioned prevention materials may contain messages that could influence vulnerable individuals, reinforce negative messages about mental health, or give the impression that suicide is hopeless and unsolvable. Another important consideration is effectiveness: how can we design messages that are more likely to advance our goals? The public is exposed to messages about suicide in a variety of different ways- from posters and social media posts to program websites, event publicity, informational materials, and giveaways. This webinar will describe a new research-based resource that provides guidance for developing safer and more effective messages and materials, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Framework for Successful Messaging. The webinar will illustrate key ideas of the Framework using North Carolina’s communications efforts, including the development of their It’s Ok 2 Ask campaign.
Presenters
- Linda Langford, Evaluation and Communications Scientist, Suicide Prevention Resource Center
- Jane Miller, Public Health Program Consultant, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Kerri Smith, Senior Prevention Specialist, Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Event Presenter(s)
Presenters
- Linda Langford, Evaluation and Communications Scientist, Suicide Prevention Resource Center
- Jane Miller, Public Health Program Consultant, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Kerri Smith, Senior Prevention Specialist, Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Zero Suicide Webinar: Screening and Assessment for Suicide in Health Care Settings
Screening for suicide risk is a recommended practice for primary care, hospital and emergency department care, behavioral health care, and crisis response intervention. Any person who screens positive for possible suicide risk should be formally assessed for suicidal ideation, plans, means availability, presence of acute risk factors, history of suicide attempts, as well as for the presence of protective factors. This information should be synthesized by an appropriately trained clinician into a risk formulation that describes the person’s risk as well as serves as the basis for treatment and safety planning. While screening and assessment should be standardized, every client is unique. It is incumbent on the clinician to use the screening and assessment process to establish a collaborative relationship with the client and to ensure his or her safety and well-being.
This webinar will focus on screening and assessment for suicide in health care settings using a patient-centered approach. The objectives for this webinar are to: (1) understand why screening is part of a comprehensive approach to suicide care; (2) determine how to select a suicide screener; (3) recognize the difference between screening and assessment; (4) identify the problems with categorizing risk into levels (low, medium, high) and gain exposure to an alternative approach for formulating and communicating about risk in a health system; and (5) identify a patient-centered approach to screening and assessment.
Screening and Assessment for Suicide in Health Care Settings
Cohort 9 Training Series: Building and Sustaining Partnerships
Partnerships consist of a group of individuals representing diverse organization or constituencies who agree to work together to achieve a common set of goals, generally within a formal structure. Partnerships can vary substantially in level, size, and scope of work. The webinar will guide us through a discussion that focuses on the important role that building and sustaining effective partnerships can play in building local capacity to sustain efforts, overcoming shifting political structures, and measuring success as we create the future and environment for our children and the community. We look forward to hearing from each of you, if you haven’t already done so please take a few moments to fill out the registration.
Participants will learn:
- Strategies for reaching out to prospective partners they are considering for collaboration
- Key components of establishing MOUs or other formal agreements for suicide prevention
- Key considerations in reaching perplexing partners or settings
- Criteria to help consider what level and scope of partnerships to evaluate
Cohort 8 Campus Training Series: Learning From Your Peers: Lessons Learned from past and current GLS grantees
Cohort 9 Training Series: Care Linkages
All too often people leave one care setting and do not successfully make it to another. To keep people from falling through the cracks as they transition to and from settings such as emergency departments, Indian Health Services, primary care, school counselors, outpatient mental health, and campus counseling centers, optimal care requires that there are standardized ways of helping the client, their caregivers, and the systems themselves overcome barriers to that transition. These include strategies like making a way to get an urgent MH appointment, getting informal caregivers to help in the transition, and more. This webinar framed some key considerations for successful care transitions, and gave an opportunity for peer discussion on strategies and plans.
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