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EVENT NAME: Assessing & Managing Suicide Risk: Clinical Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals

- DATE: Monday, February 15, 2010

- TIME: 8:30AM - 5:00PM

- LOCATION: The Guidance Center, Center For Excellence Building, 13111 Allen Rd., Southgate MI, 48195

- SUGGESTED PARTICIPANTS: Wayne County Community Mental Health Clinicians


- LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Participants will gain knowledge in the following:

  • Managing one's own reactions to suicide
  • Reconciling the different and potential conflict between a clinician's goal to prevent suicide and a client's goal to eliminate psychological pain through suicide
  • Maintaining a collaborative, non-adversarial stance
  • Developing a written treatment and services plan that addresses a client's immediate, acute, and continuing suicide ideation and risk for suicide

Pre-Registration is REQUIRED for this training by Monday, February 8, 2010.  Training Admission Fee is $35 per person.  Payments must be received or postmarked by February 8, 2010. Payment options are Online Credit Cards (Visa, Mastercard and AMEX only), Personal Check, Agency Check

Make Checks Payable to:  Virtual Center of Excellence, 13101 Allen Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Agency Checks must include the names of the participants that the check is covering and should be postmarked no later than the day of registration.  To ensure your payment and registration is processed, please include the following on the memo line. Assessing & Managing Suicide Risk.

Cancellation Refund Policy: Substitutions are permitted at any time. No Shows will be billed at the same rate. Cancellations must be received in writing no later than 10 business days prior to the training to kpalmer@vceonline.org in order to obtain a full refund.  If cancellation is received less than 10 days prior to the training, no refund will be issued.

- CREDITS: Currently 6.5 continuing education credits are available for Social Workers .  This program has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).  The Suicide Prevention Resource Center is authorized to award 6.5 NBCC clock hours and 6.5 NASW CE contact hours.

The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists.  AAS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Participants may receive 6.5 hours of APA CE credit.

The Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative approved this training for 6.5 CE clock hours.

Beverage service ONLY will be  made available, you will have an hour break for lunch and will receive a map of local restaurants once you are registered.

Registration for this training is now closed. Please check the website soon for the next session.

 
wayne county guidance center
The Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency is a division of the Wayne County Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert A. Ficano,
Wayne County Executive
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