About This Event
Join us for another session of our youth suicide prevention summer webinar series, brought to you by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in collaboration with the Children’s Hospital Association, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association and the Ohio Youth Suicide Prevention Collaborative.
Following the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Apply principles of patient safety science to suicide prevention, including approaches to risk assessment and clinical response.
- Describe system-level strategies that strengthen a health system’s capacity to deliver suicide‑safer care across settings and roles.
- Explain how population-level approaches, including lethal means safety and 988 awareness, support suicide prevention efforts.
- Recognize the role of patients and families in coproducing effective and accessible suicide prevention practices.
Continuing education credits: 1.5 hours
- AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- Non-Physician Attendance
- ANCC Contact Hours
- APA Credits
- ASWB ACE Credits
- Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists
Instructions to receive CE credits
Before the session
Create a CloudCME account a few days before the webinar. See instructions. Signing up the day of the session may cause delays as the site can occasionally freeze with high traffic.
During the session
You will be asked to text your attendance to a designated phone number.
After the session
You will receive a code to text to confirm completion. After submitting the code, you will receive a link to CloudCME to complete your session evaluation and claim your continuing education credits.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact Himabindu Katrapati or Yvonne Staton.
About the presenters
Brian Kurtz, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He served as director of child and adolescent psychiatry consultation-liaison services for 11 years and has been the program director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program at Cincinnati Children’s since 2019. Dr. Kurtz’s research and clinical interests include youth suicide prevention, education about youth mental health for clinicians in a wide range of disciplines, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and the medical-psychiatric interface. He co-leads the Zero Suicide Implementation team at Cincinnati Children’s.
Melissa Young, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her work focuses on youth suicide prevention, crisis assessment, and implementation of evidence-based care for adolescents at risk for suicide. She co-leads institutional suicide prevention initiatives focused on systems-based prevention, suicide risk identification, and lethal means safety. Dr. Young also helped expand integrated behavioral health services within adolescent and young adult primary care and supports implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for high-risk youth. She is a national trainer in Counseling on Access to Lethal Means and has trained more than 1,000 health care and mental health professionals in suicide prevention practices. Her work emphasizes practical, population-level approaches to improving suicide prevention and access to care for youth and families
