Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

INSTITUTES
• Cultural accommodations (rather than adaptations) to the evidence-based practice being implemented
• Low-burden, low-cost evaluation as a sustainability strategy
The participants will be encouraged to participate in implementation planning exercises in order to see how the model
might apply to their organizations. The faculty team will offer the perspectives of a statewide coordinator for the
implementation of Functional Family Therapy model who also represents a family perspective and an evaluator for
evidence-based practice implementation who provides the perspective of implementing and sustaining program
performance and outcome evaluation activities.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Lynne Marsenich, M.S.W., Senior Associate, California Institute for Mental Health,
Sacramento, CA
Pam Hawkins, Senior Associate, Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation, California Institute for Mental
Health, Sacramento, CA
Tracye Jones, Behavioral Health Administrator, Administration, Shields for Families, Los Angeles, CA
Cricket Mitchell, Ph.D., Senior Associate, California Institute for Mental Health, Sacramento, CA
INSTITUTE #6 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 8:30 AM SATURDAY • OSCEOLA 1-2
Youth Suicide Prevention: Implementing Evidence-Based
and Effective Approaches in Communities
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the key components of a youth suicide prevention framework
2. How to use strategies for mobilizing community members to help address youth suicide and related issues
3. To employ methods for organizing suicide prevention awareness activities
4. To identify concrete steps for adopting a suicide prevention resource for community and school use
This Institute will focus on evidence-informed interventions and tools that can be implemented in communities and
schools to address issues related to youth suicide prevention. The strategies and tools to be highlighted include using
suicide prevention awareness tools, gatekeeper training, Mental Health First Aid training, and The Youth Suicide
Prevention School-Based Guide that is available online.
The strategies to be highlighted will be based on the suicide prevention work of faculty members at local, state, and
national levels. To illustrate a community’s approaches to youth suicide prevention, two communities will highlight their
strategies, tools, and experiences. A system of care in northeast Iowa (Community Circle of Care) will share their
community-based, multi-pronged approach to suicide prevention. A community in Orange County, New York, created an
Orange County Suicide Prevention Committee that promotes awareness of suicide and provides the community with
prevention and education activities and customized the Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide as part of their
overall youth suicide prevention strategy.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Key components of a youth suicide prevention framework with applications for communities, schools, and agencies
through a research-informed resource with useful assessment checklists that are included in the Suicide Prevention
Resource Center’s Best Practices Registry
• Information on how to coordinate a Suicide Awareness and Prevention walk and ideas on how to solicit donations for
sustainability of this type of suicide prevention awareness activity
• Suicide prevention awareness activity strategies include presenting gatekeeper training programs, mental health
presentations, and suicide prevention education training that educate participants about the signs and symptoms of
depression and suicide risk as well as how to help a friend/yourself
• Mental Health First Aid training that includes suicide prevention information, with an example from a community that
has trained over 750 professionals, parents, youth, and general community members, including implementation
strategies, ideas for overcoming barriers, and success stories
• Different pragmatic methods for adopting a research-informed suicide prevention resource (the Youth Suicide
Prevention School-Based Guide) through sharing implementation strategies, ideas for overcoming barriers, success
stories, and how this resource might fit into an overall youth suicide prevention effort
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