***Schedule***
7:30 AM -7:55 AM: Arrival and sign-in
8:00 AM -9:00 AM: Session
9:00 AM -9:15 AM: Break (Snacks and coffee available for a nominal fee)
9:15 AM -12:00 PM: Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch (Time subject to change)
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Session
*Please note: The schedule is subject to change based on the needs of the presenters and participants.
***Continuing education credits available at no additional charge for school psychologists (NASP) as well as for NYS licensed social workers and licensed mental health counselors! Please email Jen Potrzeba at jpotrzeba@franklincsd.org today if you require a CPD certificate and please indicate which certificate you require***
Description:
Within and across school districts, practices vary widely in managing students at risk for suicide. At one end of the spectrum, some schools require that police officers assess any student threatening suicide and subsequently escort the child to a regional hospital if they are deemed to be a “lethal threat” to themselves. At the other end of the spectrum, school psychologists complete a risk assessment, provide brief intervention, and develop a safety plan for a child at-risk for suicide. Such variability within and across school districts, and even among school-based mental health care practitioners, leaves them susceptible to role confusion and lacking confidence in how to properly address a student who is suicidal.
Session Learning Objectives-
- Acquire tools, knowledge, and skills to assist students having thoughts of suicide or engaging in suicidal behavior
- Understand the necessity of pre-planning and standardized procedures for safety planning
- Identify the importance of collaboration and shared decision making between school mental health professionals, administrators, community providers, and the student and his or her family in managing students at risk for suicide
- View an example of documenting risk of suicide and safety planning
- Be prepared to develop and implement standardized procedures in their schools/district that reflect best practice for helping students at risk
***Food, Drinks, and Snacks***
Lunch is included with registration. Lunch will be catered by the Red & White of Chenango Bridge, NY. Lunch includes the following: beverages, associated wraps/subs, broccoli salad, garden salad, and cookies/brownies.
Students from B-T BOCES will also have additional snacks, coffee, and water for sale in the morning for a nominal fee. Cash only.
***Directions and Parking***
This event is being held at the Instructional Support Center NOT the Education Center. The Instructional Support Center of is located on the B-T BOCES Main Campus. Their address is 435 Glenwood Road, Binghamton . The Instructional Support Center is near a sign at the entrance and is the brown building closest to the street at the peak of the hill. The building that sits lower on the property is the Educational Center.
Parking is available directly in front of the building and also on the left side of the building where the entrance is located.
Once you have entered the building please sign in at reception.
See directions here: http://www.btboces.org/Downloads/Directions%20to%20BOCES%20facilities.pdf
For more information about speakers and other details--see the event flyer at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NkLr2b5bvpF8qIKN1q3j1l4csWGS5f68/view?usp=sharing
