Research indicates that youth involved in the child welfare system have higher rates of suicide ideation and attempts than their peers. During Suicide Prevention Month, the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services is starting the conversation with a 2-part webinar series around what parents, caregivers, and professionals can do to reduce this risk.   

On September 17, Susie [수지]  Reynolds Reece, Director of Lived Experience Initiatives with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, reviewed suicide risk among child welfare-involved youth, brief interventions to help these youth, and what suicide prevention efforts look like in child welfare systems. 

I enjoyed delivering this presentation for the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services on suicide prevention for part one of their two-part series entitled “Suicide Prevention and Lived Experience.”

From their site: “Research indicates that youth involved in the child welfare system have higher rates of suicide ideation and attempts than their peers. During Suicide Prevention Month, the National Center is starting the conversation with a 2-part webinar series about what parents, caregivers, and professionals can do to reduce this risk.

Susie (수지) Reynolds Reece, Director of Lived Experience Initiatives with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, will review suicide risk among child welfare-involved youth, brief interventions to help these youth, and what suicide prevention efforts look like in child welfare systems.”