Safety and suicide prevention will be focus of inaugural OPCSMH Symposium at NEOMED
Registration is now open for the Ohio Program for Campus Safety and Mental Health's inaugural Campus Safety & Suicide Prevention Symposium: Cultivating Caring Campuses, to be held from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., Thursday, April 11, at NEOMED.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Marty Swanbrow Becker, associate professor of psychological and counseling services in the Educational Psychology and Learning Systems Department, Florida State University, as the morning keynote speaker. His research examines the personal and contextual factors that influence the progression of adolescents and young adults along a distress and suicidal continuum of experience with a focus on stress, coping, resilience, help seeking and diversity of background. He also explores the efficacy of suicide prevention interventions and applies the knowledge gained to design and deliver programs to reduce the prevalence of suicidal experiences among adolescents and young adults.
We also look forward to welcoming Dr. Corbin Standley, director of impact communication and continuous improvement, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, as the afternoon keynote. Dr. Standley is a community psychologist and researcher who has worked with community-based organizations across the country to turn data and research into action to create change. His work focuses on public health and community-level approaches to suicide prevention through capacity building, equitable systems change and policy change. Dr. Standley’s research agenda broadly examines how social and systemic contexts impact suicidality and the role of social-ecological factors in prevention. More specifically, his work examines how oppression and marginalization, intersectionality and social support shape youth suicide risk and prevention.
Directly following the symposium, the OPCSMH will host a free screening and discussion of The S Word, a powerful feature documentary that puts a human face on a topic that has long been stigmatized and buried with the lives it has claimed. The film gives a platform to those with lived experience – people who have attempted to take their own lives and survived to tell their stories. The discussion will be moderated by Lisa Klein, director of The S Word. The screening and discussion of The S Word will be from 2:15-3:45 p.m., and is open to students, staff and faculty from all universities, as well as community organizations.
Additional information can be found on the OPCSMH website. We will also be continuously updating our website with more details, in addition to our regular communications on our listserv. Be sure to keep an eye out! Click here to register.
Please feel free to contact opcsmh@neomed.edu with any questions.
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