The 25th Annual Jon E. Nadherny/Calciano Memorial Youth Symposium will take place 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 10, at the Coconut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz, with a focus on youth suicide, prevention, recovery and resilience. Reservations are required.
Christine Yu Moutier
Featured speakers are Christine Yu Moutier, M.D., chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and DeQuincy Meiffren-Lezine, Ph.D., director of the Lived Experience Academy and author of “Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide.”
At 9 a.m., Moutier will speak on science and solutions for preventing suicide in youth and young adults.
Moutier has authored Suicide Prevention, a Cambridge University Press clinical handbook. She also has contributed articles to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Academic Medicine, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety, and Academic Psychiatry. She has testified before Congress, presented at the White House and National Academy of Sciences, and provided Congressional briefings on suicide prevention. She co-anchored CNN’s Emmy Award-winning Finding Hope suicide prevention town hall with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
At 10:45 a.m., there will be a panel: Andrea Tolaio, program director, Santa Cruz County Suicide Prevention Services, Andrea Turnbull, LCSW, program manager for access services and interim program manager, crisis services, County Behavioral Health, Carly Memoli, president, Applied Crisis Training and Consulting Inc., and Faris Sabbah, Ed.D., Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools.
Lunch is at 11:55 a.m.
At 12:40 p.m., Meiffren-Lezine will speak on “From Suicidal to Post-Suicidal Growth.”
At 2:10 a.m., there will be panel discussions moderated by Jen Hastings, M.D., with all local experts and keynote speakers including: Ben Geilhufe, LPCC, program manager, Gender Specialty Clinic, Santa Clara County Behavioral Health.
Continuing education credits are available to physicians, therapists, psychologists and registered nurses.
The symposium is designed to train participants to be able to:
- Identify trends in mental health and suicide in the United States, with a focus on youth and young adults, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Describe features of the public health approach to suicide prevention, including the importance of education, advocacy by loss and attempt survivors, and the roles of clinicians and people/families with lived experience.
- Screen for suicide risk using evidence-based tools.
- Use brief intervention, including Safety Planning and Counseling for Lethal Means Safety.
- Specify 2 paths someone can pursue for personal growth following a suicidal crisis
- Outline a client plan for recovery and growth that can be used by people in the post-crisis phase, including local services and supports.
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Walk-ins cannot be accommodated. Admission is $100. RSVP by March 1 at https://calcianoyouthsymposium.org/event/2023-jon-e-nadherny-memorial-youth-symposium/