​Suicide Prevention & Intervention: What’s Working

9:00 am to 10:30 am EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: ​Mandy Fauble, PhD, LCSW

NASW-NYS Members: $15

NASW Other Chapter Member (Including NYC): $20

Non-Members: $30

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description

This workshop will review screening tools and interventions frequently utilized in suicide prevention, such as: dialectical behavior therapy (DBT); collaborative and management of suicidality (CAMS); medications; hospitalizations; and crisis lines. The workshop will also review macro-oriented interventions and policy changes associated with suicide. The presenter will identify recent trends and changes in suicide deaths, and describe the need for varying approaches in diverse communities. Finally, the presenter will explore evidence-based opportunities to provide support, such as building a hope box, creating safety plans, utilizing caring contacts, and reducing lethal means. This workshop will be framed in a collaborative and integrated model, where social workers team with clients, their supporters, and other professionals to enhance safety.  

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify evidence based screening tools for suicide prevention.
• Describe clinical methods associated with reduced risk for suicide death.
• Explain how to implement basic safety planning techniques, including reducing access to lethal means.
• Name macro and policy interventions in suicide prevention.
• Define social workers’ role as a collaborator in enhancing safety.

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Mandy Fauble​, PhD, LCSW, is Director of Clinical Care Services at UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor and provides administrative oversight to UPMC Jameson partial hospitalization and UPMC Chautauqua ambulatory behavioral health.

Dr. Fauble’s clinical interests include serious mental illness, substance use disorder and families, trauma, and crisis intervention. She serves as Project Director for three HRSA grants awarded to the Hamot Health Foundation and is a behavioral health scientist on a CDC grant for suicide prevention awarded to the University of Pittsburgh’s Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), in addition to prior grant activities.

She has been an assistant professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (Penn West) since 2012, and an adjunct faculty member at Mercyhurst University from 2005-2023. She is a certified trainer of Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR).