ECHO-Chicago: Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Providers

March 26, 2024 to May 28, 2024
Join us on this transformative journey and become part of a dedicated network committed to positively impacting mental healthcare!
 
Embark on a 10-week training program tailored to behavioral health providers in Mental Health Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) across Illinois. This comprehensive program will equip behavioral health professionals with the latest evidence-based, patient-centered best practices in suicide prevention.
 
Throughout the program, participants will engage in a combination of didactic sessions and role-play simulations. These sessions delve into the most current research and strategies in the field. Following this, participants will lead at least two case presentations lasting 35-40 minutes each, providing an opportunity to discuss actual cases, share experiences, and explore challenges and successes.
 
Inspired by the format of medical rounds, this program encourages open discussions and active application of knowledge gained. It fosters community, allowing participants to draw upon their experiences and support one another. This collaborative environment will build the capacity for effective suicide prevention among behavioral health professionals.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for community-based behavioral health professionals providing care to patients at risk for suicide.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recall changes in population-level risk factors for suicide and psychological and biological precedents to completed suicide;
  • Recognize the components of a trauma-informed system-level root cause analysis that moves the focus away from mistakes and to systems;
  • Identify the levels of mental health care resources needed to build a system for referral and follow-up;
  • Relate challenges faced by patients post-acute mental health care and potential solutions;
  • Discuss the role of primary care clinicians in screening for suicide risk and high-risk populations for suicidality;
  • Describe the core elements of suicide safety planning for use at home and in the community;
  • Explain how and why a system-level approach prevents suicide in individual patients;
  • Demonstrate how to use and administer the Brief Suicide Safety Assessment and Caregiver Abuse Screen.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
ECHO-Chicago
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
echo@bsd.uchicago.edu
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-2213

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 10.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 10.00 Participation
  • 10.00 Social Work CEU
Event starts: 
03/26/2024 - 12:00pm
Event ends: 
05/28/2024 - 1:00pm
Activity opens: 
05/28/2024
Activity expires: 
08/28/2024
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Date
Session topic
Facilitator
March 26
 Suicide Epidemiology & Introduction to ECHO-Chicago
  • Describe changes in population-level risk factors for suicide and psychological and biological precedents to completed suicide
  • Relate trends in suicide risk and risk factors to the care of individual patients
  • Explain how the Echo model can be used for  Zero Suicide
 All
April 2
Secondary Stress and Trauma
  • Explain the effects of normalizing distress after a suicide event
  • Recognize the components of a Trauma-informed System-level Root Cause Analysis, which moves the focus away from mistakes and to systems
  • Implement strategies for facilitating resilience in yourself, colleagues, and peers after a suicide event
Royce Lee
NAMI
Samantha Allen
April 9
Zero Suicide model
  • Explain how and why a system-level approach is needed to prevent suicide in individual patients in Chicago
  • Describe the evidence-based and evidence-supported components of the Zero Suicide model
  • Identify how each individual in a healthcare system contributes to a system-level suicide prevention program
 Royce Lee
April 16
 Screening Part 1
  • Explain the role of behavioral health providers in screening for suicide risk
  • Identify high-risk populations for suicidality
  • Identify common barriers to suicide screening and describe solutions to these barriers
  • Identify evidence-based suicide screening tools and describe what differentiates them from other suicide screening approaches
  • Implement the BSSA and CASE screening tools to provide initial suicide screening for patients
Neda Laiteerapong
April 23
 Screening Part 2
  • Demonstrate competency in using and administering the BSSA and CASE
  • Identify key decision points the clinician must make in the BSSA and CASE
  • Identify the key challenges (communication of risk) and shortcomings (dependency on patient ability to disclose suicidal ideation) of standardized assessments like the C-SSRS
Royce Lee
April 30
 Cultural Competent Assessment Part 1
  • Culturally Assess suicide attempt risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs
  • Describe appropriate disposition options based on risk level assigned
NAMI (TBD)
May 7
 Cultural Competent Assessment Part 2
  • focus on high risk groups - LGBTQ, black & brown communities, also Asians, men
  • Developing Empathy: through impactful stories, research, and insights
  • Becoming Aware and Respectful: By raising self-awareness and practicing
  • Taking Action: Implementing individual and systematic changes
NAMI (TBD)
May 14
 Safety Planning & Lethal means safety
  • Describe the core elements of suicide safety planning
  • Implement a supportive/collaborative approach to safety planning
  • Create strong safety plans for use at home and community by supporting patients and their families in the clinic/virtually
  • Explain commonly used lethal means
  • Explain the importance of lethal means of safety to patients and their families
  • Implement a supportive/collaborative approach to lethal means safety counseling
Samantha Allen
May 21
 Referral and Follow-Up (system centered)
  • Describe the levels of mental health care resources needed to build a system for referral and follow-up
  • Implement a system to streamline the connection of patients to mental health providers and other local and national resources to support their needs
Neda Laiteerapong
May 28
 Post-acute care and Transitions in care
  • Describe challenges faced by patients post-acute mental health care
  • Implement solutions to common challenges faced in transitions of care
Neda Laiteerapong
Samantha Allen

*The agenda is subject to change.

Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website.
 
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via e-mail via at echo@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu.
 
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
COURSE DIRECTORS
Samantha Allen, MSW, LCSW  Samantha Allen, MSW, LCSW
  Licensed Social Worker
  University of Chicago
 

 
 
  Neda Laiteerapong, MD, MS
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
  Associate Director, Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy
  University of Chicago

 
  Royce Lee, MD
  Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
  University of Chicago
 
 
 
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for ECHO-Chicago: Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Providers for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
 
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.

Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.

Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
 
ECHO-Chicago
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