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October 10, 2024
Virtual
Learn about research on factors that impact depression and suicidality in autistic people and using community-based methods to develop effective interventions.
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September 11, 2024
Virtual
In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) hosted a livestream event on suicide prevention in health care settings.
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August 22, 2024
Virtual
This webinar will present the goals and procedures of the Rural Engagement and Approaches For LGBTQ+ Mental Health (REALM) study, which is developing a longitudinal cohort of diverse LGBTQ+ adults residing in rural and small metropolitan communities across the United States.
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August 1, 2024
Virtual
A technical assistance webinar will be held for prospective applicants of the following Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Suicide Prevention Across the Life Span in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-MH-25-160).
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June 13–14, 2024
Washington, D.C. and Virtual
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) are organizing a two-day symposium on suicide prevention, a key priority of the Americas' public health agenda.
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May 2, 2024
Virtual
This workshop will convene researchers and federal officials to review the state of the science for neurofeedback intervention development for mental disorders, with an emphasis on real time fMRI approaches.
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April 10, 2024
Virtual
The directors of the Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Centers will provide an overview of each of the projects and help each other achieve their common mission.
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February 8 and February 12, 2024
Virtual
This workshop brings together experts in peer support suicide prevention to discuss relevant conceptual frameworks, recent advances, service settings, and service-user characteristics that inform intervention strategies across the crisis services continuum, digital and telehealth applications, and considerations for youth equity.
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September 27, 2023
Virtual
This technical assistance webinar was held for prospective applicants of the following Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) and Data Coordinating Center for Approaches to Identifying Preteen Suicide Risk and Protective Factors (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).
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September 19, 2023
Virtual
In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in September, NIMH hosted a Facebook Live event on youth suicide prevention.
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September 12, 2023
Virtual
This webinar discussed different hypotheses about agricultural suicide in the context of current epidemiological research, and examine the effectiveness of telehealth, farming stress hotlines, and clinical opportunities and challenges in addressing suicide within the agriculture community.
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April 25–26, 2023
Virtual
Workshop on the challenges of investigating child and youth deaths and efforts to assess and mitigate the rate of suicide death in children and youth.
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September 15, 2022
Virtual
In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month in September, NIMH and the National Institute on Drug Abuse are co-hosting a Facebook Live event on the intersection of suicide and substance use.
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January 14, 2022
NIMH hosted a webinar for diverse stakeholders, including school administrators, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders, to learn about new and innovative practices in school-based suicide prevention.
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November 3–8, 2021
NIMH convened a two-day workshop to assess the state of the science related to suicide prevention training in clinical care with the ultimate goal of preventing suicidal behavior through improved training of providers.
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September 22, 2021
During National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NIMH hosted a livestream event on suicide prevention during the pandemic, focusing on unemployment, youth, and other population subgroups who may be experiencing elevated risk.
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September 22, 2021
Virtual
During National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NIMH will host a livestream event on September 22, 2021, to discuss suicide prevention during the pandemic, focusing on unemployment, youth, and other population subgroups who may be experiencing elevated risk.
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June 29, 2021
This webinar showcased the NIMH’s commitment to community-based youth suicide prevention research with the White Mountain Apache Tribe and described the NIMH-funded regional research hub (U19), which blends a Western culturally adapted, evidence-based risk reduction approach with a culturally grounded protective factor-based intervention to reduce the burden of youth suicide.
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June 15, 2021
The series brought together a diverse group of expert panelists to assess the state of the science and short- and longer-term research priorities related to preteen suicide risk and risk trajectories. Panelists’ expertise was wide ranging and included youth suicide risk assessment and preventive interventions, developmental psychopathology, child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, family and peer relationships, how social and cultural contexts influence youth’s trajectories, biostatistical and computational methods, multilevel modeling, and longitudinal data analysis.
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May 26–27, 2021
This workshop shared the latest findings about sleep and its connection to suicide prevention.
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October 5, 2020
On October 5, 2020, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) held a virtual Town Hall to bring together the NIMH Alliance for Research Progress and the NIMH Professional Coalition for Research Progress. The meeting featured three presentations from National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff who spoke about ongoing mental health research initiatives, a brief discussion panel with these presenters, and an hour-long question-and-answer session with Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director of NIMH, outlining NIMH’s new outreach approach to increase public access to mental health research, and to facilitate communication between NIMH, professional societies, and advocacy groups.
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September 23, 2020
In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NIMH will host a livestream event on September 23, 2020, from 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET, to discuss the latest in suicide prevention research, including ways to identify risk, and effective prevention strategies.
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September 17–18, 2020
Webinar
On September 17 and 18, 2020, the NIMH Division of Translational Research conducted a two-day virtual workshop, “Social Disconnection and Late Life Suicide,” which brought together clinician scientists, behavioral scientists, neuroscientists, geriatric psychiatrists, epidemiologists, and implementation scientists to discuss the current state of the science on social disconnection and suicide.
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April 21, 2020
Hear from experts on the alarming rise of black youth suicide and strategies to engage and care for these youth.
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September 5, 2019
In observance of Suicide Prevention Month, Dr. Jane Pearson participated in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) event on September 5, 2019. During the event, Dr. Pearson answered questions from the public about the latest suicide prevention research.
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June 5–6, 2019
On June 5th and 6th, investigators will meet to identify and prioritize research needs in the application of predictive analytics using electronic health records in suicide prevention.
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June 5–6, 2019
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a two-day meeting with researchers and suicide prevention advocates to identify and prioritize research needs in the application of predictive modeling in suicide prevention among healthcare providers. Meeting participants aimed to discuss best practices for developing, implementing, and evaluating these predictive tools in clinical and research settings.
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May 9–10, 2019
This workshop is intended to foster discussion among experts in the field with the goal of identifying future research priorities in the area of child suicide risk.
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May 9–10, 2019
Presentations were delivered by experts on topics related to the epidemiology of child and adolescent suicide, studying the development of suicide risk in the context of longitudinal cohort studies, and ethical considerations related to conducting research in this area.
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April 12, 2019
In April 2019, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit, the Delaware Project, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) will conduct the third webinar in a series examining the science-to-service pipeline.
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October 19, 2018
Bethesda, MD
National Institute of Mental Health Alliance for Research Progress October 2018 Meeting Summary, Agenda, and Participant List
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September 14, 2018
In recognition of Suicide Prevention week in September, NIMH is hosting a Facebook live event on Friday, September 14th from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET, with NIMH Director Dr. Joshua Gordon and Dr. Jane Pearson, chair of the Suicide Research Consortium in NIMH’s Division of Services and Intervention Research.
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May 3, 2018
On May 3, 2018, the National Institute of Mental Health hosted a Twitter chat on teen depression with Dr. Argyris Stringaris and Dr. Ken Towbin.
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January 24, 2018
webcast
Join experts for this live videocast about adolescent suicide prevention, which will include techniques for early detection and management of young people at risk.
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May 12, 2017
NIMH convened a meeting with federal and private stakeholders to review the current state of knowledge and the scope of the suicide problem in the U.S.
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March 1–2, 2017
Iqaluit, Nunavut (Arctic Canada)
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) hosted a collaborative workshop under the 2015-2017 U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The workshop focused on ways to effectively prevent suicide among Indigenous peoples in the circumpolar region.
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June 2–3, 2016
Bethesda, MD
The Division of Translational Research and the Division of Services and Intervention Research, NIMH, sponsored a workshop to review current themes in suicide research and to consider how research approaches that are consistent with the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework may provide new insight into underlying mechanisms.
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May 9–10, 2016
Tromsø, Norway
On May 9-10 2016, the NIMH Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH), together with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, convened the second workshop of an initiative aimed at suicide prevention among indigenous people in the circumpolar Arctic.
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September 19, 2015
Anchorage, AK
On September 19-20, 2015, the NIMH Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health (ORDGMH) conducted the first workshop for a new NIMH initiative aimed at suicide prevention among Indigenous people in the circumpolar Arctic.