OPCSMH Inaugural Campus Safety & Suicide Prevention Symposium: Cultivating Caring Campuses We are ecstatic to announce that registration is now officially open for the Inaugural Campus Safety & Suicide Prevention Symposium: Cultivating Caring Campuses! [An aerial view of a campus Description automatically generated]<https://www.eeds.com/portal_live_events.aspx?ConferenceID=575271&Portal_SIN=230156> Please click on the image to register! Symposium Speakers We are excited to welcome Dr. Marty Swanbrow Becker, Associate Professor of Psychological and Counseling Services in the Educational Psychology and Learning Systems Department, Florida State University. as the morning keynote speaker. His current research examines the personal and contextual factors that influence the progression of adolescents and young adults along a distress and suicidal continuum of experience with a focus on stress, coping, resilience, help seeking, and diversity of background. He also explores the efficacy of suicide prevention interventions and applies the knowledge gained to design and deliver programs to reduce the prevalence of suicidal experiences among adolescents and young adults. Additionally, we look forward to welcoming Dr. Corbin Standley, Director of Impact Communication and Continuous Improvement, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Standley is a community psychologist and researcher who has worked with community-based organizations across the country to turn data and research into action to create change. His work focuses on public health and community-level approaches to suicide prevention through capacity building, equitable systems change, and policy change. Dr. Standley's research agenda broadly examines how social and systemic contexts impact suicidality and the role of social-ecological factors in prevention. More specifically, his work examines how oppression and marginalization, intersectionality, and social support shape youth suicide risk and prevention. Who Should Attend Campus stakeholders at institutions of higher education, higher education administrators, behavioral health departments, community members, campus security and law enforcement; students, educators, counselors, social workers, and others working within a higher education setting are encouraged to attend. Symposium Objectives * Identify how colleges and universities can collaborate with the campus-community to leverage the promotion of student safety & well-being, mental health awareness and campus suicide prevention efforts. * Identify outreach opportunities to engage student-focused programming that addresses stigma and barriers to accessing mental health care. * Provide best practices, resources, and help-seeking options that target suicide prevention for all campus-community student populations. Where to Learn More Additional information can be found on the OPCSMH website. We will also be continuously updating our website<https://www.neomed.edu/csmh/training-opportunities/symposium/> with more details, in addition to our regular communications on our listserv. Be sure to keep an eye out! Reminder: OPCSMH February 2024 Webinar: Eating Disorders & Body Positivity on Campus Be sure to register for the OPCSMH February 2024 webinar: Eating Disorders & Body Positivity on Campus, occurring on Thursday, February 29th from 12:00pm-1:00pm EST! Join us during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week to hear Kate Adkins, PhD, MFT-S, LPCC-S, Owner, Kate Adkins Therapy, Ltd., speak on how eating disorders can present on college campuses, as well as how to identify resources for eating disorders and body image treatment across campus. Click here<https://neomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/8517061244829/WN_sRsDRE6mSt2uEFXM-YAwbg> to register! Keep an Eye Out for New Email Address Sending OPCSMH Listserv Emails Moving forward, OPCSMH listserv emails will come from opcsmh@neomed.edu<mailto:opcsmh@neomed.edu> in the hopes of making communication channels between OPCSMH staff and our stakeholders more consistent and simplified. This may cause our emails to go to your spam folder, so if you notice you haven't received an update from us in a while, be sure to check there! Please contact opcsmh@neomed.edu<mailto:opcsmh@neomed.edu> with any questions you may have. Take care, Chris Chris Tutino, MPH (he, him, his) Dissemination Coordinator, Ohio Program for Campus Safety and Mental Health (OPCSMH) Department of Psychiatry Connect with the OPCSMH! Website<https://www.neomed.edu/csmh/>| X<https://twitter.com/neomedopcsmh> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/74567516/admin/feed/posts/> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUf15GQPbeWeikAHLfLJaoQ> | Listserv<https://opcsmh.neomed.edu/list/opcsmh.opcsmh.neomed.edu>