Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention for Youth

In-Person Workshop

Friday, September 20, 2024
2:00-4:00pm

NYU Silver School of Social Work, 1 Washington Square North, Parlor, New York, NY 10003

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 2 CE contact hours

Clinicians know all-too-well that suicidal ideation is commonplace in school-aged youth. It is the second leading cause of death for youth ages 12-18 (CDC, 2022). There has been a significant rise in adolescent mental health hospitalization since the start of COVID-19. Studies have found that adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts may be a reaction to stress or emotional distress (Tummala-Narra, Deshpande and Kaur, 2016) and the current climate intensifies these emotions leading to suicidal ideation and attempts. Studies have also found that the rate for suicide attempts have increased for youth in Black, Latinx and Asian/Pacific Islander communities (Ramchand et al, 2021). Newspapers report that the “next wave” of the pandemic is issues in child mental health (US News and World Report, 2021). Clinicians see this “next wave” daily.

This workshop will teach clinicians how to properly assess for suicidal ideation, learn when the level of suicidal ideation requires further assessment in a hospital setting and will address all of this with a culturally affirming lens. Many times white clinicians (or clinicians without shared ethnicity to their clients) are sole practitioners in schools with BIPOC students, and we will work to address social location and the proper tools to use to assess suicidal ideation with BIPOC students. We will also use tools to manage long-term suicidal ideation without hospitalization. Finally, we will address school reintegration with high-risk youth, all with a collaborative frame. The presenter will normalize the assessment process so that clinicians bring conversations about suicidal ideation into their daily practice with youth.

As a result of this workshop, students will be able to:

• Understand the new levels of suicidal ideation in BIPOC youth and reintegration into school through a culturally affirming lens.
• Have current step-by-step training on suicide assessment, hospitalization, reintegration post-hospitalization, and collaborative care with school staff, administration, inpatient clinicians and the family/guardians.
• Reflect on case examples and learn the different levels of interventions ranging from making a referral to a therapist to calling 911.  
• Normalize conversations about suicide assessment and risk to bring this into daily practice.

Dr. Jessica Chock-Goldman, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Jessica Chock-Goldman, DSW, LCSW is the Director of Clinical Services/Social Worker at Bard High School Early College of Manhattan. She is the former School Social Worker at Stuyvesant High School. She received her Doctorate of Social Welfare in Clinical Social Work at NYU School of Social Work focusing on restructuring how mental health and suicidal ideation are addressed within the Department of Education (DOE). She is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Social Work, and Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and has taught numerous Continuing Education Workshops on Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention and Intervention in Schools to MSW students and clinicians. She has two years of advanced clinical training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, received her MSW from NYU School of Social Work, and her BA from Oberlin College.

General Admission: $40.00

Available Discounts: 

• NYU Silver Current Practicum Instructors (10%): $36
  
• NYU Silver Alumni (10%): $36

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before September 13, 2024 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before September 17, 2024 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after September 18, 2024: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 2 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
285 Mercer Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
Fax: 212.995.4497