WHAT TO DO WHEN A SUICIDE IMPACTS A SCHOOL
Contact: Brenda Palinkas - [email protected]
Event Date: 11/18/2020
Location: Virtual
Registration Starts: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Registration Ends: Friday, November 13, 2020
REGISTRATION DETAILS:
Akron Children’s Hospital and the Summit County Youth Suicide Prevention Subcommittee invites you to a community conversation facilitated by national expert on suicide, Ann Duckless, M.A., Community Educator and Prevention Specialist, National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Hampshire (NAMI NH),CONNECT.
Topics:
- Share best practices and programs which exist currently in our schools.
- Enhance use of evidence-based practices, including use of Safe Messaging, to promote healing and reduce risk.
- Help students, their families, and staff cope with the aftermath of an unexpected death by suicide or other traumatic death.
- Link schools and our community stakeholders together in an organized way to help families after the death of a youth by suicide or other traumatic death.
Please bring examples of procedures and protocols your school district is currently utilizing regarding responding to a student or staff death by suicide or other traumatic death to share if possible.
This session will be held through Zoom. A link will be sent out to all those who registered prior to the training.
Date: November 18, 2020
Time: 9:00-11:00
Cost: FREE
Target Audience: School counselors, administrators, school psychologists, teachers, and other interested individuals who want to learn more about suicide postvention (what to do after a youth dies by suicide or other traumatic death).
This work is funded either in whole or in part by a grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Health as a subaward of a grant issued by Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (COVID-19 Care Funding), grant award number CDC-RFA-CE16-1602
- Your Registration Will Be Subject To Approval