NSPA Conference 2019

Plenary sessions

National overview:

• National Suicide Prevention Strategy – Professor Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health in England and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester

Suicide prevention with children and young people:

• Self-harm in Young People – Professor Ellen Townsend, Professor of Psychology at the University of Nottingham
  
• Suicide Mitigation: Aiming to Combine Compassion and Governance in a HE setting – Clare Dickens, Senior Lecturer on Mental Health at the University of Wolverhampton

Suicide prevention with people of working age:

• Risk and prevention in people of working age – Professor Nav Kapur, Head of Research at the Centre for Suicide Prevention at the University of Manchester
• Working with businesses and the community to prevent suicide – Xenia Koumi, Project Officer at the City of London Corporation 

Suicide prevention with older adults:

• Non-fatal self-harm in older people – Professor David Owens, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds
• Suicide Prevention and Later Life: An overview & reflections on co-producing peer initiatives – Jolie Goodman, Programme Manager for Empowerment & Later Life at the Mental Health Foundation 

Morning workshops

• Building suicide-safer school communities: Case Studies: PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
• Loneliness and suicide prevention in policy and practice: Samaritans
• GPs and suicide prevention – the value of peer training: CPSL Mind
• ‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’ – the latest evidence about suicide in the autistic community: Autistica
• Reaching men through sport: It Takes Balls to Talk
• Responding to the needs of LGBTQ people in suicidal distress: MindOut
  • Being an effective trans ally
  • Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns
  • Being a supportive peer or co-worker
  • Creating a welcoming environment

Afternoon workshops

• Including people with personal experience in suicide prevention: National Suicide Prevention Alliance
• Local suicide prevention planning – good practice, innovation and sector led improvement: Public Health England
• Providing support to those in crisis: Journey of Hope and James’ Place
• Reducing self-harm in young people: Professor Ellen Townsend and Keith Waters
• Supporting children and young people bereaved by suicide: Samaritans and Winston’s Wish

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