Join EDC experts at the 2024 Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health in Orlando.
About the Conference
Since 1996, the National Center for School Mental Health has hosted the Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health. The Annual Conference brings together educators and partners in the school mental health field to share the latest research and best practices. The conference emphasizes a shared school-family-community agenda to promote mental health, prevent issues, and provide interventions for students and families as part of a multi-tiered system of support.
Our Sessions
A School-Based Comprehensive Approach to Youth Suicide Prevention: A Multi-Tiered Approach and Evidence-Based Interventions
December 5th 11:30am – 12:30pm | CS 2.09 | Julie Goldstein, PhD, Richard Fournier, Ed.D
This session will address two aligned systemwide approaches to suicide prevention and how they can be more impactful when working together through policy, practice, and data application. Specifically, this presentation will discuss a whole-school public health approach that incorporates both upstream and universal approaches (MTSP for Schools) combined with indicated clinical care approaches (Zero Suicide) for youth at risk as the ideal framework to prevent suicide in schools.
Lessons Learned from the Preventing Youth Suicide Initiative in Indiana Schools
December 6th 3:00-4:00pm | CS 8.06 | Akira Gutierrez Renzulli, PhD(c), Michelle Kreinbrook, BS, Stephanie Long, MBA, FACHE
Social-emotional learning, mental health literacy, and suicide prevention in schools can reduce risk and increase protective factors for students. EDC’s suicide prevention framework offers six components for schools to implement comprehensive strategies and structural changes across a multi-tiered system of support. We share key insights from twelve Indiana school districts that recently integrated the framework and reported improvements in their capacity to implement and sustain prevention strategies.
Resources
Multi-Tiered Suicide Prevention (MTSP) for Schools
Other Suicide Prevention Resources
EDC's Parents to Parents: After Your Child's Suicide Attempt video
SPRC's Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention course
SPRC's Preventing Suicide: The Role of High School Mental Health Providers
SPRC's Preventing Suicide: The Role of High School Teachers
SPRC's Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth
SPRC's After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition
Richard Fournier, partnership director of EDC Solutions, is experienced in SEL and mental health and a licensed superintendent, former teacher, and researcher.
Dr. Julie Goldstein Grumet, Director of the Zero Suicide Institute, provides strategic direction to healthcare systems to improve the identification and treatment of people at risk for suicide.
Akira Gutierrez Renzulli, senior training and technical assistance associate, has extensive expertise in SEL, early childhood, school readiness, resilience, and trauma-informed practices.