4a: May 9, 2025: Culturally Adaptive Suicide Prevention: Exploring Person-centered and Systemic Interventions

Friday, May 9, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Pre-register by May 2, 2025

This course will be in-person on SLU Campus

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Charvonne (Long) Sturdivant, MPH 

Title: Culturally Adaptive Suicide Prevention: Exploring Person-centered and Systemic Interventions
*Meets Suicide and Diversity Requirements (1.5 CEH each)

Learning Objectives:

• Describe cultural differences in suicidal ideation and existing prevention/intervention strategies.  
• Examine ways culturally relevant risk factors influence challenges to existing suicide prevention/intervention strategies.   
• Schematize methods to improve existing prevention/intervention frameworks to meet the needs of culturally diverse groups (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ+, etc.) 

Course Description: This CE course will provide social workers, clinical professionals, and other social services, criminal justice, and education professionals with information to increase their knowledge of culturally adapted suicidal ideation. Participants will learn how to recognize factors that may influence suicidal ideation among culturally diverse groups (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ+, etc.) and how existing prevention/interventions have been utilized in universal settings. Finally, participants will use a socio-cultural framework to consider new ways to apply existing suicide prevention/interventions for diverse groups, with special attention to social factors.   

Bio: Charvonne Sturdivant, MPH, is the manager of Research and Evaluation with Illume: Center of Behavioral Health Excellence and a doctoral student at Saint Louis University School of Social Work. Charvonne has extensive experience with data analysis, and her research interests seek to integrate cultural competency into suicide prevention and youth mental health.