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).
To register click on the date to be directed to the registration page
or 330-945-5600 ext. 511234
This work is funded either in whole or in part by a grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Health as a sub-award of a grant issued by Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Progrma by the Centers for Disease Control and Prvention (COVID-19 Care Funding), grant award number CDC-RFA-CE16-1602