This DC School Behavioral Health Community of Practice meeting on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, explored the evidence-based practices that school teams can apply to increase awareness about suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention to reduce suicide risk among students. Our partners from MindWise joined us to discuss suicide prevention and intervention best practices. We also discussed upcoming Signs of Suicide and Yellow Ribbon trainings, and school teams shared their lessons learned with the implementation of suicide prevention programming.
The meeting objectives:
- Share evidence-based practices, frameworks, and strategies that can be applied by school teams to increase awareness about suicide prevention, assessment,
- intervention, and post-vention.
- Explore current available trainings and resources available in DC including Signs of Suicide and Yellow Ribbon.
- Share lessons learned from implementing training content from MindWise/Yellow Ribbon in DC schools.
- Practice an engagement strategy that can be used to increase communicationand awareness around suicide prevention with different audiences.
Presenters:
- Claudia Price, LICSW, Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)
- Alex Vann, MA, Building Capacity, LLC
- Kimberly Harrington, MSW, LICSW, Department of Behavioral Health (DBH)
- Jim McCauley, LICSW, Co-Founder and Associate Director, MindWise Trauma Center
- Meghan Diamon, LCSW, Program Director, Suicide Education, MindWise
- Jasmine Tingling-Clemmons, LICSW, Center City PCS Capitol Hill Elementary and Middle School
- Amanda Harvey, LICSW, Cardozo Educational Campus High