Suicide and Youth: Understanding, Safety Planning and Decreasing Future Suicidal Ideation with System involved Youth
Tue, May 17
|Online Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
Time & Location
May 17, 2022, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
Training Description
Come to this training on understanding suicidal ideation with system involved youth. This is going to be a training within the context of family because we need the larger team to keep system involved youth safe. We are going to talk about why youth might choose suicide, things to look for, how we talk about it, and ways to keep system involved youth safe! However, once youth are safe, our focus will shift to how do we keep them alive and having a future outlook that does not include seeing suicide as a viable option for managing their pain. Additionally, we are going to be learning about the pandemic as it relates to suicide.
Learning Objectives
1. Â Describe and understand what suicidal ideation (SI) represents and how to explore it with system involved youth.
2.  Learn about the pandemic’s continuing impact on suicide.
3. Â Identify what signs look like and some strategies for keeping system involved youth safe in the moment.
4. Â Apply our understanding of what SI means to ways that we can support youth and their families in our systems of care in an effort to decrease the chances that this SI will continue to feel like an option in the future.Â
5. Â Describe and understand what suicidal ideation (SI) represents and how to explore it with system involved youth.
6.  Learn about the pandemic’s continuing impact on suicide.
7. Â Identify what signs look like and some strategies for keeping system involved youth safe in the moment.
8. Â Apply our understanding of what SI means to ways that we can support youth and their families in our systems of care in an effort to decrease the chances that this SI will continue to feel like an option in the future.
AgendaÂ
9:30-9:45AM Â Sign In, introductions, and Zoom features
9:45-10:00AM Â Suicide myths including an overview of the issue.
10:00-10:30AM Â The impact of the pandemic on suicidality.
10:30-10:45AM Â Brainstorming of attachment ruptures in system-involved youth.
10:45-11:15AM Â Group work on identifying the problem: How do we talk about it?
11:15-11:30AM Â Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
11:30AM-12:00PM Â Review of risk factors and protective factors!
12:00-12:30PM Â Culture and Suicidality: What does it mean?
12:30-1:00PM Â Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
1:00-1:30PM Â The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Understanding how this works!
1:30-1:45PM Â Group work: Debriefing and consolidating the concepts of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide.
1:45-2:00PM Â Immediate Safety: Strategies to prevent suicide now!
2:00-2:30PM Â Diagnosing the pain!
2:30-2:45PM Â Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
2:45-3:15PM  PITH and healing: Going deeper than coping skills can handle when pain is this big – healing the pain instead of pushing it down for it to come up again in the future.
3:15-3:30PM Â Group work: Debriefing PITH, deep healing, and the importance of empathy for caregivers as a way of preventing future attempts.
3:30-4:15PM Â Facilitative questions to start to allow family members to talk about the pain and a youth presentation to apply the learning.
4:15-4:30PM Â Check-out and ADJOURNMENT
Meet Our Trainer
Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a clinical psychologist and clinical social worker, whose specialty area is working with youth and their families. Dr. Parkinson has spent most of her career working with system involved youth in our Continuum of Care (foster care, juvenile justice, mental health and the kids struggling in our school systems). She is a certified PCOMS evidence-based practice trainer. Pamela currently works as a child/family consultant to community based organizations in the Bay Area and has worked in level 14 residential, Non Public Schools, hospitals, and a variety of community-based settings including outpatient clinics, schools, diversion, kinship, etc.
This course meets the qualifications for (6.0) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.