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ECHO-Chicago: Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Providers
December 3, 2024 to February 18, 2025
Save lives through enhanced practice!
Join us for a dynamic 10-week curriculum focused on enhancing suicide prevention skills for behavioral health providers in primary care, specifically in Illinois’ Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). This program will empower you to implement evidence-based, patient-centered practices for assessing suicide risk and delivering targeted treatment plans. Each engaging session features a 20-25-minute expert-led presentation and role-play simulation, followed by 35-40 minutes of participant-driven case discussions, allowing you to apply what you’ve learned in real-time. This curriculum developed by subject matter experts provides a powerful, evidence-based toolkit for community-based providers ready to make a meaningful difference.
Don’t miss this opportunity—register now to elevate your practice and strengthen your community’s suicide prevention efforts.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for community-based behavioral health providers providing care to patients at risk for suicide.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the epidemiology of suicide within high-risk populations in Illinois, including age, gender, and cultural factors specific to each group;
- Explain the core components of the Zero Suicide model and how it can be effectively implemented in community mental health settings in Chicago;
- Identify evidence-based suicide screening tools, such as the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and ASQ, and their unique features to enhance accurate risk assessment;
- Describe common barriers to suicide screening and implement solutions to improve screening accuracy and patient engagement;
- Implement trauma-informed approaches and resilience-building strategies within clinical teams following suicide events to support both clinicians and patients;
- Develop a system to connect at-risk patients with appropriate mental health resources and support a smooth transition of care and follow-up plans.
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Date | Session |
12/03/2024 | Suicide Epidemiology & Zero Suicide Model Speaker– Phil Martinez, LCPC |
12/10/2024 | Secondary Stress and Trauma in Zero Suicide Speaker– Fabiana Araujo, PhD |
3 12/17/2024 | Suicide Risk Screening Part 1 Speaker– Khalid Afzal, MD, and Royce Lee, MD |
01/07/2025 | Suicide Risk Screening Part 2 Speaker– Khalid Afzal, MD, and Royce Lee, MD |
01/14/2025 | Suicide Risk Assessment Speaker - Elizabeth Charney, MD, and Royce Lee, MD |
01/21/2025 | Assessment for Special Populations Speaker – Annie Vernon-Cwik, LCSW |
01/28/2025 | Suicide Safety Planning & Lethal Means safety Speaker– Samantha Allen, LCSW |
02/04/2025 | Evidence-Based Treatments and Pathways for Specific Clinical Conditions with High Suicide Risk: Treatment Refractory Depression, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder Speaker – Royce Lee, MD, and Nathan Mitchell, PharmD |
02/11/2025 | Referral and Follow-Up Speaker- Michelle Churchey Mims, LCPC |
02/18/2025 | Post-Acute Care and Transitions in Care Speaker- Ellen Parker, MD |
*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.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PLANNING COMMITTEE
Khalid Afzal, MDAssociate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service
Samantha Allen, MSW, LCSWLicensed Social Worker
Daniel Johnson, MDProfessor of Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Vice Chair, Clinical Services
Director of Operations, ECHO-Chicago
Neda Laiteerapong, MD, MSAssociate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy
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.
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 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.
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.
Registration: For more information about ECHO-Chicago, visit the program website below!
ECHO-CHICAGO WEBSITE
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Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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