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Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Working with Military Spouses and Families

April 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Free

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About This Webinar

Discover how service providers can best support military spouses and family members through a trauma-informed lens of suicide prevention. Explore the impacts of deployment, periods of parental absence from the family system, trauma exposure, and spillover effects for military-connected marriages and parent-child relationships.

Dr. Keita Franklin, Co-Director of the Columbia Lighthouse Project, will identify evidence-based strategies for engaging with families, including during suicide prevention screening.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Understand trauma within the context of the military-connected family and community
Identify risk and protective factors for military-connected families and spouses/partners
Articulate evidence-based strategies for engaging with families impacted by trauma, including suicide prevention screening.

Presenter

Dr. Keita Franklin

Dr. Franklin is an accomplished senior executive widely credited with revolutionizing several large-scale, national public health systems. She has focused her expertise on key wellness areas including suicide prevention, mental health, and substance abuse. Dr. Franklin has spent her 25-year career driving complex organizational and policy change in the federal sector before recently transitioning to the private sector. She has served as a senior executive in both the Department of Defense and the Department of Veteran Affairs, where she was the principal advisor on all matters related to suicide prevention. As a national leader in suicide prevention, Dr. Franklin was responsible for leading a multi-disciplined team of experts in the advancement of evidence-based prevention practices for over three million active-duty members, 20 million veterans, and their families.

Dr. Franklin currently leads the mental health work within the Deloitte Government and Public Health Sector where she is engaged across all federal health accounts as well as serves as the Co-Director of the Columbia Lighthouse Project. She also serves on numerous boards and is an advocate for military communities.

Continuing Education (CE) Credit

Continuing Education

The following CE credits will be submitted for this session:

Board Certified Patient Advocates: This program will be submitted to The Patient Advocate Certification Board to provide CE credit to Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA). The webinar has been approved for a total of 1.5 CE contact hours, of which 0.0 are in the area of Ethics. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit expires on April 4, 2026.
Case Managers: This program will be submitted to the Commission for Case Manager Certification for approval to provide board-certified case managers with 1.5 clock hours. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit expires on April 4, 2025.
Certified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This program will be submitted to the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) for 1.5 CE credit for CFLEs. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit expires on April 4, 2029.
Certified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar will seek 1.5 CE credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) for CFCS. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit expires on April 4, 2029.
Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: Programming approval for 1.5 CE credits will be obtained for Social Work, LPCs, and LMFTs from the University of Texas at Austin, Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO, FL, HI, IA, KS, KY, MI, NY, ND, OH, OK. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit expires on April 4, 2026.
Domestic Abuse Victim Advocates: This webinar has been accepted for 1.5 continuing education hours for National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP) Credentialing. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on April 4th, 2029.
Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARC) and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Victim Advocates (VA): This webinar has been accepted for 1.5 continuing education hours for D-SAACP Credentialing. **Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on April 4th, 2029.
OneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for documenting additional professional development activities.

Event Materials

This is Part 2 with Dr. Keita Franklin. We recommend watching Part 1, Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Working with Military Service Members.

Photo Credit: Photo by Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels

Details

Date:: April 4
Time:: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Cost:: Free
Event Category:: Military Service and Family Life
Event Tags:: webinar

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