FREE Suicide Prevention Training: Preventing Suicide in Healthcare Professionals and Staff

Date: 10/21/22

Louisiana Healthcare Connections would like to share with providers an opportunity for a virtual suicide prevention training at no cost. This upcoming Suicide Safer Care webinar, "Caring for the Healers Pt. III: Preventing Suicide in Healthcare Professionals & Staff and Navigating Postvention." will take place on December 8, 2022. The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) will also debut its new self-assessment for health centers and other organizations to help them better address suicide risk in healthcare professionals and respond effectively via postvention.

Healthcare professionals are significantly more likely to end their lives by suicide than the general population. The COVID-19 pandemic and other events have only exacerbated the stress, moral injury, and fatigue already felt by many healthcare professionals balancing caring for patients while having concerns for their own wellbeing. And when healthcare professionals end their lives by suicide, these tragic incidences can also have a “ripple effect,” increasing the vulnerability of other professionals, patients, and family members.

Join our webinar to understand the dynamics of the crisis and learn concrete strategies to help support primary care providers and teams, address suicide risk and prevent deaths by suicide in staff, and implement effective postvention strategies. This training will also provide tips from the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved on how organizations can self-assess their readiness to prevent and respond to provider suicide.

Presenter:
Dr. Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-r, SAP, CCM, Chief Clinical Officer and Co-Founder of Concert Health, Co-Founder of Zero Overdose

Register to join this webinar on Thursday, December 8, 2022, from 1:00-2:00 pm (EST).