Resource Types: Webinar/Presentation

This presentation includes an overview of SPRC’s Recommendations for State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure (Infrastructure Recommendations) and related tools, strategies for discussing state infrastructure with decision makers, and an example of how the Infrastructure Recommendations and tools were used in Michigan.

This webinar provides an overview of suicide prevention as a public health issue in the US. Elly Stout Director of the SPRC, discusses individual and community level strategies that can be used by health systems, public health and health/behavioral health care professionals. She provides next steps for the field as well.  

This webinar explores the socialization and culture of men in the middle years. It is designed to help mental health care providers use effective messages to promote connectedness among men in their middle years.

This presentation describes potential measures to prevent suicide in railway stations and along tracks, including means restriction, gatekeeper training, public awareness campaigns, signage, and media guidelines/training (to reduce the perceived viability of this means of suicide).

Webinars in the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention’s (ICRC-S) webinar and conference call series are designed for researchers and state or local practitioners in injury or suicide prevention.

This webinar took place on March 13, 2013. The webinar is designed for researchers and state or local practitioners in injury or suicide prevention. It examines what the research shows regarding effective strategies for youth suicide prevention and highlights successful projects, key partnerships, relevant outcomes, and barriers experienced by Colorado’s Office of Suicide Prevention, particularly related to its prevention efforts for LGBTQ and Hispanic/Latino youth and youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.

Presenters for this webinar are Peter Wyman, Phd., a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Jarrod Hindman, M., the director of the Office of Suicide Prevention in the Injury, Suicide and Violence Prevention Branch at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The webinar was moderated by Adam Chu, MPH, a prevention specialist with Suicide Prevention Resource Center.

The Intersection of Suicide Research and Public Health Practice: Suicide and Veterans, the second webinar in a webinar and conference call series from the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S), took place on February 13, 2013. The webinar is designed for researchers and state or local practitioners in injury or suicide prevention. It features discussion of the scope of the problem of suicide among our nation’s veterans and approaches that the Veterans Administration takes to reduce suicide. The webinar also provides information about the Statewide Advocacy for Veterans’ Empowerment (SAVE) program of the Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services.

Presenters for this webinar are Robert Bossarte, Acting Associate Director and Chief for Epidemiology and Interventions Research at the VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention at VA Medical Center at Canandaigua and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide (CSPS) at the University of Rochester; Alan Holmlund, Director of the Suicide Prevention Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; and Cheryl Lussier Poppe, Deputy Secretary for Programs, Services and Personnel in the Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services. The webinar was moderated by Julie Goldstein Grumet, Director of Prevention and Practice for Suicide Prevention Resource Center.

This first webinar in a webinar and conference call series from the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S) took place on January 9, 2013. Entitled The Intersection of Suicide Research and Public Health Practice: Laying the Foundation for Partnership, this webinar explores the public health and collaboration frameworks for suicide prevention and suicide research.

The webinar is designed for researchers and state or local practitioners in injury or suicide prevention. The goal of this webinar and of the ICRC-S webinar and conference call series is to promote a dialogue between researchers and practitioners, enabling them to identify new, collaborative projects that will inform and enhance suicide prevention efforts and research. Presenters for this webinar are Eric Caine, MD, John Romano Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Elly Stout, MS, Prevention Support Program Manager for Suicide Prevention Resource Center. The webinar was moderated by Ann Marie White, EdD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Originally presented July 30, 2013, this webinar provides an overview of the risk and protective factors associated with suicide among service members, veterans, and their families . Resources and strategies that can be used to help service members, veterans, and their families who are in crisis are discussed. The webinar also includes a review of a comprehensive suicide prevention plan and examples of what states, communities, and organizations are doing to reduce suicides among service members, veterans, and their families.