Suicide, Self-Harm and Violence to Others – On-Demand Training

Prevention Strategies to Protect Your Students and Ensure Institutional Compliance

In 2022 alone, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline received more than 5 million calls, texts and chats. As is well known, the mental health crisis extends to college students.

Our expert presenter, Dr. Meggen Sixbey (University of Florida), reviews ways to create a campus-wide approach to preventing and addressing acts of suicide and violence against others. Practical suicide and homicide intervention strategies and theories to help you recognize risk factors, triggers and warning signs will be explored and applied through a case study.

Protect your campus from potential loss and preventable tragedy.  

Topics Covered

As a result of this online training, you will be better able to:

• Train faculty and staff to recognize risk factors, triggers and stressors, and warning behaviors to intervene and refer at-risk students confidently and effectively.
• Educate your campus community about the clues, warning signs and intervention strategies to prevent a campus tragedy, drawing from reputable work related to murder-suicide and how it relates to preventing acts of violence overall.
• Initiate a campus wide dialogue with faculty, staff, administration and students on the current mental health crisis and campus policies that address “students of concern”.
• Develop prevention strategies that protect your institution and students from inflicting self-harm or foreseeable violence to others by engaging in the difficult dialogues to build confidence and comfort to ensure intervention occurs for both suicide and homicide concerns.

Presenter

Dr. Meggen Tucker Sixbey is the Assistant Director at the University of Florida’s Police Department, overseeing the Behavioral Services Division which incorporates oversight of the campus threat assessment team, police-clinician teams, and victim advocates.
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