This full day of suicide prevention workshops and featured speakers will provide attendees with current information related to suicide prevention, postvention, screenings in primary care settings, inclusive practices in clinical settings, and feature voices of lived experience. Participants will be eligible for 6 continuing education units.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stacey Freedenthal
Dr. Freedenthal is an educator, psychotherapist, suicidologist, consultant, writer and author of Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals. Dr. Freedenthal will speak on: What Helps People Want to Stay Alive in Dark Times?
These days, many people struggle not only with mental illness or trauma, but also with rapid social change, political divisiveness, and other sources of relentless stress. This talk explores steps for navigating these challenges, whether to cope personally or to help loved ones. Stacey Freedenthal draws on her own lived experience.
Additional session topics and speakers:
- Dr. Joyce Chu & Dr. Chris Weaver: Downstream Suicide Prevention Efforts
- In light of recent cuts to LGBTQ+ resources, Brian Poth and featured panelists will discuss strategies for creating welcoming and inclusive spaces, supporting practitioners in creating practice settings that communicate a setting is safe and affirming. Our lived experience panel will feature individual voices sharing their own stories and view on what communicates a provider will be affirming in their approach to clinical care.
- Pediatric physician shares insights and education on how to integrate depression screenings in primary care to support youth suicide prevention.
- Jana Sczersputowski presents Directing Change: Evidence Based Practices for Youth Suicide Prevention.
- Multi-County Panel shares strategies for sustaining suicide prevention work with shrinking resources.
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Questions – Reach out to Solomon Vang (solvang@fresnocountyca.gov)
