# Event Summaries about Suicide

-  Workshop: Advancing the Science on Peer Support and Suicide Prevention  February 8 and February 12, 2024  Virtual  This workshop brings together experts in peer support suicide prevention to discuss relevant conceptual frameworks, recent advances, service settings, and service-user characteristics that inform intervention strategies across the crisis services continuum, digital and telehealth applications, and considerations for youth equity. 
-  Technical Assistance Webinar: Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors  September 27, 2023  Virtual  This technical assistance webinar was held for prospective applicants of the following Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) and Data Coordinating Center for Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).  
-  Facebook Live: Youth Suicide Prevention  September 19, 2023  Virtual  In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in September, NIMH hosted a Facebook Live event on youth suicide prevention. 
-  Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Coming Face to Face With Suicide in American Farming  September 12, 2023  Virtual  This webinar discussed different hypotheses about agricultural suicide in the context of current epidemiological research, and examine the effectiveness of telehealth, farming stress hotlines, and clinical opportunities and challenges in addressing suicide within the agriculture community. 
-  Research, Practice, and Data Informed Investigations of Child and Youth Suicide: A Science to Service and Service to Science Approach  April 25–26, 2023  Virtual  Workshop on the challenges of investigating child and youth deaths and efforts to assess and mitigate the rate of suicide death in children and youth. 
-  Facebook Live: The Intersection of Suicide and Substance Use  September 15, 2022  Virtual  In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are co-hosting a Facebook Live event on the intersection of suicide and substance use. 
-  School-based Suicide Prevention: Promising Approaches and Opportunities for Research  January 14, 2022  NIMH hosted a webinar for diverse stakeholders, including school administrators, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders, to learn about new and innovative practices in school-based suicide prevention.  
-  Workshop on Advancing Training in Suicide Prevention Clinical Care  November 3–8, 2021  NIMH convened a two-day workshop to assess the state of the science related to suicide prevention training in clinical care with the ultimate goal of preventing suicidal behavior through improved training of providers. 
-  Livestream Event on Suicide Prevention During COVID: A Continuing Priority  September 22, 2021  During National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NIMH hosted a livestream event on suicide prevention during the pandemic, focusing on unemployment, youth, and other population subgroups who may be experiencing elevated risk. 
-  Strength in the Face of Challenge: Youth Suicide Prevention Research Among the White Mountain Apache and the Navajo Nation in the Time of COVID-19   June 29, 2021  This webinar showcased the NIMH’s commitment to community-based youth suicide prevention research with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and described the NIMH-funded regional research hub (U19), which blends a Western culturally adapted, evidence-based risk reduction approach with a culturally grounded protective factor-based intervention to reduce the burden of youth suicide. 
-  Understanding Suicide Risk Among Children and Pre-teens: A Synthesis Workshop  June 15, 2021  The series brought together a diverse group of expert panelists to assess the state of the science and short- and longer-term research priorities related to preteen suicide risk and risk trajectories. Panelists’ expertise was wide ranging and included youth suicide risk assessment and preventive interventions, developmental psychopathology, child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, family and peer relationships, how social and cultural contexts influence youth’s trajectories, biostatistical and computational methods, multilevel modeling, and longitudinal data analysis. 
-  Sleep and Suicide Prevention Workshop: Advancing Innovation and Intervention Opportunity  May 26–27, 2021  This workshop shared the latest findings about sleep and its connection to suicide prevention.   
-  2020 NIMH Joint Alliance-Coalition for Research Progress Town Hall  October 5, 2020  On October 5, 2020, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) held a virtual Town Hall to bring together the NIMH Alliance for Research Progress and the NIMH Professional Coalition for Research Progress. The meeting featured three presentations from National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff who spoke about ongoing mental health research initiatives, a brief discussion panel with these presenters, and an hour-long question-and-answer session with Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director of NIMH, outlining NIMH’s new outreach approach to increase public access to mental health research, and to facilitate communication between NIMH, professional societies, and advocacy groups. 
-  Virtual Workshop: Social Disconnection and Late-Life Suicide: Mechanisms, Treatment Targets, and Interventions  September 17–18, 2020  Webinar  On September 17 and 18, 2020, the NIMH Division of Translational Research conducted a two-day virtual workshop, “Social Disconnection and Late Life Suicide,” which brought together clinician scientists, behavioral scientists, neuroscientists, geriatric psychiatrists, epidemiologists, and implementation scientists to discuss the current state of the science on social disconnection and suicide. 
-  Webinar: Responding to the Alarm: Addressing Black Youth Suicide  April 21, 2020  Hear from experts on the alarming rise of black youth suicide and strategies to engage and care for these youth. 
-  NIMH Reddit “Ask Me Anything” with Dr. Jane Pearson – Suicide Prevention  September 5, 2019  In observance of Suicide Prevention Month, Dr. Jane Pearson participated in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) event on September 5, 2019. During the event, Dr. Pearson answered questions from the public about the latest suicide prevention research. 
-  Identifying Research Priorities for Risk Algorithms Applications in Healthcare Settings to Improve Suicide Prevention  June 5–6, 2019  The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a two-day meeting with researchers and suicide prevention advocates to identify and prioritize research needs in the application of predictive modeling in suicide prevention among healthcare providers. Meeting participants aimed to discuss best practices for developing, implementing, and evaluating these predictive tools in clinical and research settings. 
-  Identifying Research Priorities in Child Suicide Risk  May 9–10, 2019  Presentations were delivered by experts on topics related to the epidemiology of child and adolescent suicide, studying the development of suicide risk in the context of longitudinal cohort studies, and ethical considerations related to conducting research in this area. 
-  NIMH Alliance for Research Progress Meeting  October 19, 2018  Bethesda, MD  National Institute of Mental Health Alliance for Research Progress October 2018 Meeting Summary, Agenda, and Participant List 
-  Twitter Chat on Teen Depression  May 3, 2018  On May 3, 2018, the National Institute of Mental Health hosted a Twitter chat on teen depression with Dr. Argyris Stringaris and Dr. Ken Towbin. 
-  Adolescent Suicide Prevention: Recognizing Teens at Risk & Responding Effectively  January 24, 2018  webcast  Join experts for this live videocast about adolescent suicide prevention, which will include techniques for early detection and management of young people at risk. 
-  State of Suicide Prevention in Emergency Care  May 12, 2017  NIMH convened a meeting with federal and private stakeholders to review the current state of knowledge and the scope of the suicide problem in the U.S. 
-  Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in Indigenous Groups – Strengths United through Networks (RISING SUN): Workshop 3  March 1–2, 2017  Iqaluit, Nunavut (Arctic Canada)  The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) hosted a collaborative workshop under the 2015-2017 U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The workshop focused on ways to effectively prevent suicide among Indigenous peoples in the circumpolar region. 
-  Mechanisms Underlying Suicide Risk: Integrating RDoC to Inform Novel and Personalized Intervention Research  June 2–3, 2016  Bethesda, MD  The Division of Translational Research and the Division of Services and Intervention Research, NIMH, sponsored a workshop to review current themes in suicide research and to consider how research approaches that are consistent with the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework may provide new insight into underlying mechanisms. 
-  Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in Indigenous Groups - Strengths United through Networks (RISING SUN): Workshop 2   May 9–10, 2016  Tromsø, Norway  On May 9-10 2016, the NIMH Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH), together with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, convened the second workshop of an initiative aimed at suicide prevention among indigenous people in the circumpolar Arctic. 
-  Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in Indigenous Groups – Strengths United through Networks (RISING SUN): Workshop 1  September 19, 2015  Anchorage, AK  On September 19-20, 2015, the NIMH Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH) conducted the first workshop for a new NIMH initiative aimed at suicide prevention among Indigenous people in the circumpolar Arctic.