Connect Suicide Prevention Among the LGBTQIA+ Population: Considerations and Strategies For Providers - January 24, 2025
- Registration Closed
A 2-Hour Training with Elaine de Mello, LCSW and Jace Troie
Virtual via Zoom | 8:30am-10:30am
Presentation: LGBTQ+ individuals face unique and significant social and personal challenges that compromise their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This workshop will examine the many dynamics that exist through a socio-ecological perspective and offer insights that will help providers and others supporting people in the LGBTQ+ community. This will include a review of the specific risks and warning signs for suicide and methods to strengthen protective factors and approaches around harm reduction to improve overall quality of life and wellness for gender diverse people. The workshop will offer strategies to improve environments towards safety, health and inclusion and will offer direct examples through lived experience.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define LGBTQ+ language, terminology; spectrums of identity and categories of transition;
- Explain the socio-ecological challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals;
- Describe the latest findings related to suicide risk among LGBTQ+ individuals;
- Identify elements that contribute to risk and those that offer protection;
- List warning signs to recognize signs of distress and potential risk of suicide;
- Describe effective approaches to reduce the risk of suicide among LGBTQ+ individuals; and
- Explain special considerations for health/behavioral health care providers service LGBTQ+ individuals.
2 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains: 3-4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 1, 4-6, 8 & 11-17
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 2 & 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Elaine de Mello
Director of Suicide Prevention Services
NAMI NH
Elaine de Mello, Director of Suicide Prevention Services at National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire (NAMI NH), is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in the mental health field since 1978 as a clinical program manager in inpatient and community settings. Elaine also served as an emergency services clinician and director of Quality Improvement. Elaine has worked full time with NAMI NH since 1999 where she had a lead role in the development of the Connect Suicide Prevention and Postvention Program, a national best practice. Elaine has provided training and consultation in mental health and suicide prevention throughout the United States and Canada in a variety of settings including state and tribal entities, community coalitions, schools and campuses, health care facilities, and military and paramilitary organization. Elaine serves on the NH Suicide Fatality Review Committee and has been the co-chair of the NH Youth Suicide Prevention Assembly since 2003. Elaine has conducted psychological autopsies through the American Association of Suicidology and assisted nationally with Zero Suicide initiatives.
Jace Troie
DEI & Program Assistant
NAMI New Hampshire
Jace began volunteering with NAMI NH 6 years ago through the In Our Own Voice program, and traveled the state telling his story about how mental illness impacted his family, him personally, and finding hope after surviving suicide. In 2020 he was the youngest person ever elected to be on NAMI NH’s Board of Directors. Only resigning in 2022 to accept a full-time position with NAMI NH as their DEI & Program Assistant. Jace has previously held positions in the drug prevention, child-care, and education sectors. He is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and appreciates how his previous roles and lived experience help him support the mental wellness, of those in NH, through DEI work.
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