For school-based stakeholders charged with developing, implementing, and evaluating school-based suicide prevention policies in Missouri.
The conference is FREE for Missouri school personnel and CEUs will be available upon event check-in for a nominal fee (cash or check).
June 6, 2019 – 8:30 -5:00 pm
Location: Hillman Hall, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
Conference Vision: to create an environment that facilitates sharing, learning, and innovation around school-based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies.
Share: school-based stakeholders will have an opportunity to share their stories of the key facilitators and barriers to developing, implementing, and evaluating school-based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies.
Learn: school-based stakeholders will have the opportunity to learn from each other’s successes, pitfalls, and best-practice guidelines for effective school-based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies.
Innovate: school-based stakeholders will bring their existing school-based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies and technical assistance will be provided through a series of workshops designed to improve existing policies.
Conference Website: https://sites.wustl.edu/hopepolicyacademy/
Registration Link
Conference Agenda
- 8:30-9:00: Registration, coffee, and networking
- 9:00-10:15: Keynote address, everyone together
- 10:30-11:15: Developing Models of Enhancing Crisis Intervention Teams
- 11:15-12:00: Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention Programs
- 12:00-12:45: Lunch
- 12:45-1:45: Prevention Policy Workshop
- 2:00-3:00: Intervention Policy Workshop
- 3:10-4:10: Postvention Workshop
- 4:20-4:45: Closing Keynote
Speakers and Partners
Opening Keynote:
Dr. Jonathan Singer, author of Suicide in Schools, President-Elect of the American Association of Suicidology, Professor at Loyola School of Social Work, and founder of the Social Work Podcast
Closing Keynote:
Dr. Sean Joe, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, founder of the Race and Opportunity Lab at the Center for Social Development, and nationally recognized authority on suicidal behavior among African Americans.
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Rene Yoesel, Director of School Counseling, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Ryan R. Lindsay, MSW, LCSW, Associate Professor of Practice at the Brown School
Megan Marietta, MSW, LCSW, Manager of Social Work Services, St. Louis Public Schools
Key Partners:
Dr. Saras Chung, Executive Director, SkipNV
Erika Gonzalez, MSW, Manager of Urban Education Initiatives, Brown School
Janet Gillow, MSW, Director of Professional Development Programs, Brown School