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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, March 29, 2025
  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • Sunday, March 30, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Morning Coffee/Tea
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Culturally-Infused Evidence-based Community Helper Trainings: Be Sensitive, Be Brave for Suicide Prevention
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    LivingWorks safeTALK
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), by Livingworks Day 1
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk: Essentials for Clinicians- Day 1
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Death Investigation Course- Day 1
  • 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lunch on your own
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Clinical Work With The Suicide Bereaved
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention: Considerations for Special Populations
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • Monday, March 31, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Morning Coffee/Tea
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Strengthening State and Territorial Suicide Prevention Infrastructure to Advance the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: An Interactive Session for State and Territorial Coordinators **By Invitation Only**
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Culturally-Infused Evidence-based Community Helper Trainings: Be Sensitive, Be Brave for Mental Health
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Sources of Strength Staff Wellness Training: Empowering a Well Workforce
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Death Investigation Course- Day 2
  • 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    iCarol Customer Conference and User Group
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), by Livingworks Day 2
  • 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk: Essentials for Clinicians- Day 2
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    QPR Gatekeeper Instructor Certification Course
  • 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lunch on your own
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Professionalism in Suicide Postvention Peer-Support
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Soul Exhaustion, Soul Care & Suicide Prevention
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE Approach): The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Opening Reception with Exhibitors
  • Tuesday, April 1, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Morning Coffee/Tea in the Exhibit Hall. Breakfast is on your own this morning.
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Wellness Room Sponsored by OhioHealth
  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Opening Plenary: Emerging Evidence in Lethal Means Safety and Community Violence
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Promoting Suicide Prevention in Communities with Elevated Risks
    Research & Innovation
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Update on 988 Implementation and Impact in the United States
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Robert I. Yufit Annual Awards Luncheon & 2024 Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Competition
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    After Your Child's Suicide Attempt: An Honest Discussion with Parents and Clinicians
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Can Crisis Services Help Prevent Violence as well as Suicide?
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lifesustaining Practices Fellowship: A multi-year, state-supported Black youth suicide prevention initiative
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Military / Veterans / First Responder Paper Session 1
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Teaching Boys How to Cry
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    The Colorado-National Collaborative: Centering Equity in the Comprehesive Approach to Suicide Prevention
  • 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea with Exhibitors
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Book Signing- Thomas Joiner, PhD
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    A Tale of Two Clinicians
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Clinical/Clinicians Paper Session 1
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Cultural Competence in Crisis Services
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Practical Approaches to the Infusion of Culture and Diversity into Downstream Suicide Prevention Work
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Research & Innovation Paper Session 1
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention Approaches in Schools
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Understanding Suicide Risk Among Post-9/11 Women in the Military
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Research Poster Session
  • Wednesday, April 2, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Breakfast & Keynote: How to (Want to) Stay Alive in Dark Times
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Wellness Room Sponsored by OhioHealth
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Book Signing: Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Empowering Student Voices: A Peer Leader Panel on Creating Change through Sources of Strength
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Grief & Loss: Sharing Personal Experiences of the Crisis Worker
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Inclusive Innovation: Learnings from Leaders Using New Technologies at All Organizational Sizes
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Increasing accessibility and equity within suicide prevention community trainings via language translation and cultural adaptation: Lessons learned
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Military / Veterans / First Responder Paper Session 2
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    New Jersey's Statewide Child Fatality Near Fatality Review Board- Suicide Subcommittee: Implementation and Impact
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Promoting Early Identification: A Study on Youth Help-Seeking and School-Based Mental Health Education
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention Approaches in Healthcare
  • 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    A Novel Approach to Universal Suicide Prevention Using Digital Interventions
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exploring Hidden Factors in Suicide Crisis Intervention: Empirical Insights from Crisis Negotiations
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    From Crisis to Resilience: The Therapeutic Outcomes of SOSA, A Support Group for Survivors of Suicide Attempt
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Houses of Hope & Healing: Homelike Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalization and their Place in a Comprehensive Crisis Continuum
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lived experience / Loss Survivor Paper Session 1
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention Approaches in Communities
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention Approaches within Zero Suicide Framework
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Book Signing: Shawn Shea, MD
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea with Exhibitors
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    “I’m not sure what to say…”: Helping clinicians incorporate knowledge of military culture into suicide prevention efforts with military-connected clients
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Attachment Based Family Therapy for Suicidal Youth
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    From Data to Action: Using Public Insights to Inform Suicide Prevention Strategies and Mental Health Support
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    From Loss to Support: Establishing Lemon Aid Suicide Postvention in Kansas
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Research & Innovation Paper Session 2
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Securing the Path to Care: Enhancing Safety Protocols Between Crisis Contact Centers and Mobile Crisis Teams
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Youth / School / Education Paper Session 1
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Building Trust in the 988 Lifeline: Integrating Imminent Risk Data with the 2024 National Strategy
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Clinical / Clinicians Paper Session 2
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Eye of the Survivor: Lessons Learned from United Suicide Survivors International and the Power of Storytelling in Suicide Prevention and Suicide Grief Support
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Practical Strategies to Develop and Maintain Partnership-Focused Campus Suicide Prevention Programs
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Research & Innovation Paper Session 3
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    'The Critical Relationship Between Public Health and Coroner/Medical Examiner Duties in Suicide Prevention'
  • Thursday, April 3, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Breakfast & Coffee/Tea with Exhibitors
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    AAS Talks
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Wellness Room Sponsored by OhioHealth
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    All Hands on Deck: Addressing Perinatal Suicide in Colorado with a Cross-Sector Public Health Approach
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    From Assessor to Ally; Redefining Suicide Care in a Crisis Facility
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Inside Wounded Warrior Project's Proactive Strategy for Building Suicide-Safer Communities
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leadership by design: national organizations collaborating to save lives.
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Lived Experience / Loss Survivor Paper Session 2
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Nothing About them Without Them: Partnering with Youth in Creating a Statewide Youth Centered Suicide Prevention Campaign
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Suicidal Countertransference: The Unconscious Language of Emotions
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea with Exhibitors
  • 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    Book Signing- Jonathan Singer, PhD, LCSW
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Crisis Services Paper Session
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Empowering Suicide Assessment: Social Justice Principles for Addressing Systemic and Cultural Determinants of Risk
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Implementing the Zero Suicide Framework in Youth-Serving Behavioral Health Systems
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    National Suicide Prevention 2.0 Clinical Telehealth program: Virtual evidence-based implementation and change management in Veteran Affairs
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Research & Innovation Paper Session 4
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Postvention as Prevention in the South Florida Muslim Community
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Prevention Approaches with Men
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lunch with Exhibitors
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Innovations in Community Helper Training: How to Improve Your Promotion, Adaptation, and Evaluation of Suicide Awareness Training in Your Community
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Panel: Data Backed Approach to Identifying Crisis Needs in North Carolina
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Raising the Bar Graph: Innovative Strategies and Best Practices for Effective Data Reporting for Crisis Response Services
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Reducing Suicide Among Resident Trainees: A novel approach to reducing suicide among resident physicians by altering culture, addressing stigma, and changing the conversation around suicide
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    The Promise of Upstream Prevention: Reducing Suicide Attempts and Mortality through Peer-Led, Upstream Public Health Interventions
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Youth / School / Education Paper Session 2
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Closing Keynote- Together We Face the Challenges Ahead
  • Friday, April 4, 2025
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Breakfast & Coffee/Tea
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Therapeutic Art Activity by Your Heart On Art, Inc
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Nursing Room
  • 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration & Information Booth
  • 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Healing After Suicide Loss Summit Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    Keynote: Purpose Beyond Suicide
  • 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Wellness Room Sponsored by OhioHealth
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    Book Signing- Marlon Rollins, PhD, LPCC, LMHC
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    4 Phases of Suicide Loss
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    Suicide Loss Support Groups
  • 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lunch
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    HealthRHYTHMS Group Drumming Session
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Saving Lives, Healing Hearts: Supporting Communities in the Aftermath of Suicide Loss
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Closing Remarks- The Calling