Annual Suicide Prevention Training Conference
October 30 & 31, 2013
Crowne Plaza Columbus North
6500 Doubletree Avenue, Columbus, OH 43229
614.885.1885
You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Suicide Prevention Training Conference presented by the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation (OSPF) with support from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the SAMHSA Garrett Lee Smith Grant.
The conference has been specifically designed to meet the needs of new and established mental health providers. This year the conference has a dual emphasis, featuring Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk, and CALM Training of Trainers and The Gun Shop Project. Mental health professionals, social service providers, educators, consumers, family members, survivors of suicide, and others concerned with preventing suicide and saving lives are encouraged to attend the conference.
Participants will gain knowledge in the following areas:
-Eliciting suicide ideation, behavior, and plans
-Making a clinical judgment of the risk that a client will attempt or complete suicide
-Collaboratively developing an emergency plan
-Risk reduction by reducing access to lethal means
-Specific steps to take to remove/reduce access to lethal means
-Developing a written treatment and services plan that addresses a client’s immediate, acute, and continuing suicide ideation and risk for suicide
-Implementing the principles of crisis management
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