Preventing Youth Suicide

Workshop from The Gathering on Mental Health and The Church on March 9th, 2015 Jacquelyn Rivera, LCSW, PPSC — Program Coordinator II, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services This presentation will provide an overview of youth suicide prevention and will discuss the nature of suicide, risk factors, suicide-related statistics, myths, and warning signs focused on youth. Key points of the discussion will include how to assess for lethality, how to manage a young person who is suicidal, and how to gain valuable information on resource referrals. Each speaker represents himself or herself, not Saddleback Church.