GLS Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting
 

Time

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting

Preliminary Agenda

Sunday, March 18 (Arrival Day)

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Registration

5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Program Showcase Set-up

 

Time

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting

Preliminary Agenda

Monday, March 19 (Day 1)

7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

All Day

Exhibits

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Campus Plenary:  Implementing a Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention

·         Bonnie Lipton, MPH, Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)

·         Nance Roy  EdD, The Jed Foundation (JED)

 

10:15 am – 10:30 am

BREAK

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Campus Roundtable Discussions:  Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention

 

Roundtable Topics:

 

Identify and Assist

Increase Help-Seeking

Effective Care/Treatment

Care Transitions/Linkages

Respond to Crisis

Postvention

Reduce Access to Lethal Means

Life Skills/Resilience

Connectedness

 

 

12:00pm – 1:30pm

LUNCH (On your own)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Plenary:  All Grantees

 

Welcoming Remarks

·         Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, Assistant Secretary, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

 

Garrett Lee Smith Priorities

·         Richard McKeon, PhD, Chief, Suicide Prevention Branch, SAMHSA

 

 

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Program Showcase:  All Grantees

 


 

Time

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting

Preliminary Agenda

Tuesday, March 20 (Day 2)

7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

All Day

Exhibits

9:00 am – 10:00 am

 

Campus Plenary: How to Make Your Data Tell the (Right) Story

·         Christina Zurla, ICF

·         Sophia Zanakos, PhD, ICF

 

 

10:00 am – 10:15 am

BREAK

10:15 am – 11:30 am

Campus Breakout 1A: Best Practices in Creating Data/Surveillance Systems on Campus and Lessons Learned

·         Bonnie Lipton, MPH, SPRC

·         Nora Kuiper, MPH, ICF

·         Bob Lang, LPC, LAC, Colorado Mesa University

 

 

 

Campus Breakout 1B:  Care Transitions: Creating a Safety Net with On- and Off-Campus Partners

·         Diana Parrish, LMSW, University of Michigan

·         Christine Asidao, PhD, University of Michigan

·         Amanda Byrnes, LMSW, University of Michigan

·         Jonathan Pohl, PhD, Central Connecticut State University

·         Luis G. Manzo, PhD, St. John’s University

 

 

Campus Breakout 1C: Creative Management of Substance Use Disorders on College Campuses

·         Michael R. Nadorff, PhD, Mississippi State University

·         Melinda Moore, PhD, Eastern Kentucky University

 

 

Campus Breakout 1D: Community College & Commuter School Roundtable

 

Facilitator:  Alfred Forrest, MD, JD, FACOG, West Valley College

 

 

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

LUNCH on your own

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Campus Breakout 2A:  Public Messaging for Suicide Prevention: Why It Matters and How to Do It

·         Frances Gonzalez, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline)

·         Ashley Vactor, Lifeline

·         Luis G. Manzo, PhD, St. John’s University

 

 

Campus Breakout 2B: Community Colleges:  Increasing  Student Access to Mental Health and Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder Services

·         George Mageles, MA, LMFT, West Valley College

·         Emma Griffs, MPH, Red Rocks Community College

·         Tiffiney Lozano, Feather River College

·         Dana Nowling, Plumas Rural Services

 

 

Campus Breakout 2C: Identify and Assist: Training Methods and Screening to Identify At-Risk Students and the Impact on Connecting Them to Services

·         Nora Kuiper, MPH, ICF

·         Michael R. Nadorff, PhD, Mississippi State University

·         Marty Swanbrow Becker, PhD, Florida State University

 

 

Campus Breakout 2D:  Strategies to Engage High-Risk and Special Populations on Campus

·         Cindy Ewell Foster, PhD, University of Michigan

·         Regina Varin-Mignano, LCSW-R, PhD, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY

·         Matthew Joffe, MA, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY

 

 

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

BREAK

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Campus Government Project Officer (GPO) Meet-and-Greet

·         Rosalyn Blogier, LCSW-C, SAMHSA

·         Portland Ridley, SAMHSA

·         Jennifer Cappella, MPH, SAMHSA

 

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

 

 

 

BREAK

 

 

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Campus Skill Building:  How to Make Your Data Tell the (Right) Story, Part 2

 

** For Cohort 9 & 10 Campus Grantees**

 

·         Christina Zurla, ICF

·         Sophia Zanakos, PhD, ICF

 

Guided Team Planning

 

** For Cohort 11 Campus Grantees**

 

·         Irene Cho, EdM, SPRC

·         Ashleigh Husbands, MA, SPRC

·         Bonnie Lipton, MPH, SPRC

 

 

 


 


Time

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting

Preliminary Agenda

Wednesday, March 21 (Day 3)

 

Registration

 

Exhibits

9:00 am – 10:15 am

Campus Breakout 3A:  How to Assess Program Impact

·         Luis G. Manzo, PhD, St. John’s University

·         Michael Nadorff, PhD, Mississippi State University

 

 

Campus Breakout 3B: Means Restriction on Your Campus: How to Survey Your Campus and Implement Evidence-Based Recommendations and Programs

·         Sara Lee, MD, Case Western Reserve University

·         Mallory Weymer, Pennsylvania College of Technology

 

 

Campus Breakout 3C:  Strategizing Together to Address the Mental Health Needs of Students of Color in Today’s Campus Climate

·         Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc, Director,  The AAKOMA Project; Senior Scientific Advisor, The Steve Fund; Associate Professor of Psychiatry

 

 

Campus Breakout 3D:  Using Innovative Strategies to Promote Resiliency on Campus

·         Beth Morrison, MSEd, NCC, LCPC, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

·         Andrea Mills, LPC-MHSP, Lipscomb University

 

10:15 am – 10:30 am

 

BREAK

 

10:30 am – 11:45 am

Plenary: All Grantees

 

Changing the Conversation from Suicide to Suicide Prevention: Messages that Can Save Lives

·         John Draper, PhD, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

·         Craig Miller, Massachusetts Suicide Prevention Coalition

 

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Closing Remarks

·         Richard McKeon, PhD, Chief, Suicide Prevention Branch, SAMHSA