# Event Summaries about Prevention of Mental Disorders

-  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. 
-  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. 
-  Workshop: Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Mental Health Applications  September 14–15, 2023  Virtual  The primary goal of the workshop was to examine focused ultrasound neuromodulation for mental health applications and share the latest findings and best practices. 
-  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. 
-  Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Beyond FDA Approval: Assessing the Value of New Health Technologies  March 8, 2022  Foluso Agboola, MBBS, MPH provided a brief background on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and describe the Value Assessment Framework using their review of esketamine for treatment-resistant depression as an example. 
-  Mental Health and Older Adults Facebook Live Q&A  March 1, 2022  Experts from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration conducted a Q&A on mental health, well-being, and aging. Experts discussed common concerns among older adults and tips to improve overall mental health. 
-  Stress Less: Healthy Relaxation for #OurHearts Facebook Live Event  February 25, 2022  In recognition of American Heart Month, clinical psychologists Laurie Friedman Donze, Ph.D., from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Krystal M. Lewis, Ph.D., from the National Institute of Mental Health discussed stress and heart health by demonstrating ways to reduce stress and bring on your body’s relaxation response. 
-  Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Cancer Control in the 21st Century with an Emphasis on Risk Reduction  February 22, 2022  Dr. Otis Brawley provided an overview of cancer incidence and mortality trends in populations defined by race, socioeconomic status, area of residence. 
-  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. 
-  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. 
-  Emotional Well-Being: Emerging Insights and Question for Future Research Roundtable Meeting  April 3–4, 2018  Bethesda, MD  The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), in collaboration NIMH and other NIH Institutes and Centers, cosponsored a roundtable discussion about research on emotional well-being. 
-  Twitter Chat on Seasonal Affective Disorder with NCCIH  February 20, 2018  On February 20, 2018, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health held a Twitter chat on seasonal affective disorder (SAD). 
-  NIMH Rare Genetic Diseases Workshop  September 19, 2017  Bethesda, MD  On September 19, 2017, NIMH hosted a workshop on challenges and opportunities for exploring rare genetic syndromes as models to delineate the genetic risk architecture of mental illnesses and to facilitate translation into meaningful prevention and treatments. 
-  HIV PrEP Implementation Science Administrative Supplement Meeting  May 10, 2017  Bethesda, MD  The NIMH Division of AIDS Research sponsored a meeting to advance the science of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation.