This webinar provided an introduction to the National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention (NCHATS). This Center solves two long-standing problems at once to prevent community-level suicide.

Suicide is a top 10 cause of death for people under the age of 65. One of the biggest challenges in suicide prevention is finding people at risk for suicide when they are at risk, so that they can be connected to suicide prevention services. Our research has found that a significant percentage of adults who die by suicide in the community each year have had contact with the criminal-legal (or criminal justice) system in the past year: including police, courts, and jails. However, it has historically been challenging to connect individuals interacting with criminal-legal systems to community mental health and substance use disorder services at scale. Our Center has found a way to solve both problems, bringing suicide prevention services to some of the U.S.’s most vulnerable.

If you do work related to suicide prevention, to community mental health, to criminal-legal systems, or to law enforcement, this webinar is relevant for you. Come hear more about this important work.

Speakers:

- Jennifer E. Johnson, PhD, Professor of OBGYN, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Michigan State University

- Lauren Weinstock, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University

- Jessica Hulsey, Founder and Executive Director, Addiction Policy Forum