Description

Firearm Suicide Among Veterans

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Date:  November 20, 2024; 12 PM - 1 PM EST

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join us for a session of our new "Lunch and Learn" series! This engaging virtual event offers a unique opportunity to expand your knowledge during a convenient 1 to 1.5-hour continuing education course. Our upcoming presentation will delve into epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical approaches to understanding firearm suicide in US military veterans. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights, enhance your understanding, and connect with like-minded professionals.

Register now to secure your spot and invest in your professional growth!

Course Descriptions and Learning Objectives 

This lecture covers current epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical approaches to understanding firearm suicide in US military veterans. As this area has matured, research has transitioned from establishing associations and risk factors for firearm suicide in veterans to clinical approaches for suicide risk stratification in veterans ad firearm owners. We further discuss evolving law and policy such as extreme risk protection orders for lethal means reduction.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss epidemiology of suicide and firearm suicide among US military veterans
2. Review general risk factors for suicide
3. Formulate how periods of mental health crisis can lead to suicide attempts
4. Illustrate how research in veteran firearm suicide has evolved
5. Introduce extreme risk protection orders as they are used in Maryland
6. Discuss future directions of suicide risk assessment and lethal means reduction in veterans and cultural competencies

Speaker Bio - Jason Theis, MD, MPH

Jason Theis is a Michigan native. He enlisted in the active duty United States Army from 2005 to 2011 serving in South Korea and Iraq. He is currently a physician training in a consult-liaison psychiatry fellowship program. His research area include suicide, firearm injury prevention policy, and veterans' mental health.

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Accreditation Information

Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners 

Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 1.0 Category 1 continuing education credits.

1 NBCC Credit Hours

The Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider ACEP No. 6140. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. 1 NBCC Credit Hours

Cancellations Policy

Cancellations for Firearm Suicide Among Veterans must be made no later than one week prior to the program date, and refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee. No refund option will be available for cancellations made less than one week prior to that program date. No-shore registrants will forfeit any payment made for the program. CHEP does not offer vouchers for cancellations for these conferences.

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CHEP’s Grievance Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Grievance-Procedure-revised-7-27-2018.pdf

Virtual Learning Policy and Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CHEP-Virtual-Learning-Policy-and-Precedure.v421.pdf

Presented by:  Chesapeake Health Education Program (CHEP)

Address:  PO Box 229, Perryville, MD  21903

Questions:

Please contact CHEP at 667-454-0339 or email us at programs@chepinc.org