Preventing Trauma and Suicide during Catastrophic Events and Beyond: Strategies for Preventing Suicide in California

California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Prevention Institute invite you to attend the following webinar:

Preventing Trauma and Suicide during Catastrophic Events and Beyond: Strategies for Preventing Suicide in California

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (PST)

Catastrophic events like the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, or other disasters can cause major upheaval in the lives of individuals and communities as a whole, disrupting the social fabric and cutting people off from much needed support. Preventing trauma and suicide under these conditions, and in the long term, requires dedicated attention and resources.

In this webinar, presenters from the Prevention Institute and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will introduce their new toolkit on preventing trauma and suicide during catastrophic events and beyond.  This toolkit offers a foundation for prevention activities to implement during periods of infrastructure disruption due to catastrophic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenters will provide an overview of the suicide prevention modules, which provide guidance and tools to help assess local contexts, populations most impacted by suicide, and promising suicide prevention strategies. Additionally, a presenter from CDPH will demonstrate how to use available data to guide prevention efforts in California. A new resource will be highlighted that illustrates how to access state and county-level suicide data using the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch’s EpiCenter website.

Webinar Presentations/Speakers:

• Preventing Trauma and Suicide During Catastrophic Events and Beyond Toolkit
  Ruben Cantu and Kami Yamamoto, MPH, Prevention Institute
  Nia West-Bey. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
• EpiCenter Resource Document: Accessing Data on Suicide Deaths
  Nichole Watmore, MPH. CDPH, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch

To register, please click here. Upon registration, a calendar invitation with Zoom information will be emailed to you.

We encourage you to share the information about this webinar broadly.  Thank you!

This webinar is being supported by CDPH’s Suicide Prevention Program, Essentials for Childhood Initiative, and CORE State Injury Prevention Program. The Prevention Institute project is supported by Cooperative Agreement No. 6 NU38OT000305-02-03 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Health and Human Services or the CDC.