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Paper Presentation

Evidence-based Practice & Research and Program Evaluation

Session: Mental Health Interventions, Multi-tiered Systems of Support and Program Evaluation

“Suicide prevention can do work beyond preventing suicide”: Evaluating a campus-wide suicide prevention program.

Evaluation of a campus-wide suicide prevention program focusing on specific populations within our University community. Listening sessions with diverse groups of students described the effectiveness of the overall program and recommendations for future work. This evaluation highlights the need for suicide prevention to be intersectional, culturally specific, and justice centered.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. Participants will be able to describe the campus-wide suicide prevention program, Care. Ask. Connect. and the culturally responsive modules.
  2. Participants will understand the findings from the evaluation of the program, including strengths, challenges and areas for growth/development.
  3. Participants will be able to explain the benefits of intersectional, culturally relevant, social justice centered approaches to suicide prevention.