Using recent data from the CDC, SAMHSA, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this evidence-based presentation:

• Highlights suicide trends across age, race, and gender.

• Provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed, ethically sound practices for suicide prevention and intervention.

• Explores the emotional aftermath of suicide, including grief, mourning, and the impact of loss on families and communities.

• Challenges Providers to be aware of and manage compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout.