Suicide Prevention Is Every Social Worker’s Business

A Three-Hour Accredited Seminar in Recognition of National Social Work Month

Thursday, March 21, 2024

5:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Cost

• Eligible 1199SEIU members: No out-of-pocket costs
• All other participants: $75

• Live Webinar (Zoom)

The deadline to register for this event is Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

 Program and Learning Objectives

5:30 pm — Login

5:50 pm — Welcome and Introductory Remarks

6:00 pm — “Assess, Intervene, Monitor: The AIM Clinical Model for Suicide Prevention”

Presenter

Beth Brodsky, PhD

Descriptive Summary

New York State has adopted the Zero Suicide framework for the implementation of best practices for suicide prevention, which includes guidelines for suicide screening and risk assessment, suicide-specific treatment planning, evidence-based intervention and guidelines for monitoring individuals at risk once they enter the behavioral health system. This presentation will focus on the Assess, Intervene and Monitor (AIM) model for suicide prevention practices in clinical settings, with assessment including use of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, intervention including the safety planning intervention and monitoring involving strategies for providing support between care transitions.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the AIM framework for suicide prevention;
2. Explain how to ask directly about suicide ideation;
3. Define “safety planning intervention;”
4. Understand means reduction counseling; and
5. Discuss steps for following up and monitoring individuals at risk for suicide within a behavioral healthcare setting.

7:00 pm — “The Safety Planning Intervention”

Presenter

Maureen Monahan, Ph.D.

Descriptive Summary

The Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) is an evidenced-based approach to help prevent the escalation of suicidal crises. This presentation will focus on the six steps of developing a safety plan, with a particular emphasis on obtaining a crisis narrative. The collaborative process of developing a safety plan with a suicidal patient and how to identify and overcome obstacles will be reviewed. How healthcare professionals can use this information to better inform their practice will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the need for evidence-based suicide prevention efforts and the rationale for SPI as a brief intervention;
2. Identify how SPI is more than just “completing another form;”
3. Describe how to implement all components of SPI, with a particular emphasis on obtaining an individual’s crisis narrative;
4. Recognize the six steps of safety planning with a suicidal individual; and
5. Explain how to engage individuals in the collaborative safety planning process, identify barriers and facilitators, and encourage them to use the safety plan in the future

8:00 pm — “Means Reduction Counseling with Suicidal Individuals”

Presenter
Christa Labouliere, Ph.D.

Descriptive Summary

This presentation will focus on the importance of means reduction counseling and will provide clinicians with techniques for collaborating with suicidal clients to reduce their access to lethal means that could be used in a suicide attempt. Ways to identify potentially dangerous means in clients’ homes, communities or work/school environments and strategies for implementing means reduction action plans that are feasible and acceptable to clients and their supports will be discussed. The importance of means reduction as part of overall safety planning and suicide-safer care for suicidal individuals will be explored.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

1. Define “means reduction” and recognize its importance in the context of safety planning and suicide-safer care;
2. Learn how to integrate means reduction counseling into standard clinical practice;
3. Learn how to identify potentially dangerous means available or easily accessible in clients’ homes, communities or work/school environments;
4. Develop feasible and acceptable means reduction action plans with suicidal individuals and their supports; and
5. Apply this knowledge to case study vignettes.

9:00 pm — Participants Receive Program Evaluation Information

Accreditation

Social Workers

The 1199SEIU League Training and Upgrading Fund SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers under provider #0286. Licensed New York State (NYS) Social Workers are required to provide a NYS license number to receive a certificate of credit. This course is approved for three (3) continuing education hours.

All Other Healthcare Professionals

You will receive a general certificate of attendance. Please check with your accreditation board with respect to receiving credit for this program.
Presenters

Beth Brodsky, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Member of the Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators, grants committee. Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committee of Emily Biggs.

Maureen Monahan, PhD, Project Administrator, the Suicide Prevention–Training, Implementation and Evaluation (SP-TIE) Program, Center for Practice Innovations, New York State Psychiatric Institute. Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.

Christa Labouliere, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University. Project Administrator of the Suicide Prevention–Training, Implementation and Evaluation (SP-TIE) Program, Center for Practice Innovations, New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Eligibility for 1199SEIU Members

Training and Employment Fund members

Members must have been a part-time or full-time employee for at least one year, work at least three-fifths of a regular workweek and work for an employer who contributes to the 1199SEIU Training and Upgrading Fund or the 1199SEIU Greater New York Education Fund. The cost of attendance is deducted from your Continuing Education benefit.

City of New York Education, Child and Eldercare Fund Members

Pharmacists, Dietitians, Clinical Laboratory Practitioners and LPNs must have worked with NYC Health + Hospitals or a mayoral agency for at least one year. The cost of attendance is deducted from your Continuing Education benefit.

For Further Information

Call (212) 894-4390

Email: Institute@1199Funds.org

Refund and Cancellation Policy

If you wish to cancel, you must do so at least 48 hours before the program date to avoid a penalty. To cancel, contact the 1199SEIU League Training and Upgrading Fund (TUF) by telephone, (212) 894-4390; fax, (212) 643-8795; or email, Institute@1199Funds.org. TUF reserves the right to cancel or reschedule a program in the event of insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances. Participants will be notified and given the option of receiving a refund or attending the rescheduled program or an alternate program.

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