Date: April 25, 2025
Time: 9-12 noon
Modality: in person
Presenter: Jenny Deutsch, MSW, LCSW
This course will be in-person on the SLU Campus
$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors
$65.00 All others
Title: Age-Friendly Approaches to Preventing Suicide and Safety Planning: Considerations for What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility
*Meets Suicide Requirement (3 CEH)
Learning Objectives:
Understand the 4Ms framework using case examples from real-world practice settings across the aging sector and suicide risk levels.
Recognize key risk factors for suicide in older adults and how the 4M’s impact quality of life.
Apply safety planning steps through an age-friendly lens for older adults and their caregivers who may be struggling with the 4M’s.
Course Description: This CE course equips social workers and those working across the age continuum with the knowledge, skills, and tools to implement age-friendly approaches to suicide prevention and safety planning with older adults and their caregivers. Grounded in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Age-Friendly Health Systems framework, the course explores how the 4Ms—What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility—can be integrated into each step of the evidence-based Safety Planning Intervention (SPI). Participants will examine the unique risk factors and protective factors associated with aging, engage with real-world case examples, and learn how to tailor safety plans that align with the values, needs, and capacities of older clients and their families. Finally, a case example of how to lead family and group discussions on what matters most will be presented that can be used in a variety of clinical practice settings. Resources on evidence-based practices from leading organizations will also be shared to support ongoing practice.
Bio: Jenny Deutsch, MSW, LCSW, is an Adjunct Clinical Professor with Saint Louis University School of Social Work and a clinician with Behavioral Health Response. She has 25 years of experience in the field of crisis intervention, suicide prevention, supporting loss survivors, and community education.
Price:
$65.00