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SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting
January 8 - 10, 2008
Kansas City, Missouri

Forging Our Legacy:  Creating and Sustaining A Cultural Shift on Campus

Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

The theme of this year’s meeting is sustainability.  SAMHSA and SPRC are committed to helping grantees leave a legacy by working with them to enhance community collaborations and partnerships, develop staff capacity to implement evidence based programs and lead change, and deepen their understanding of various strategies to sustain their programs. 

In developing this agenda, we considered feedback from the 2007 meeting and from a panel of 10 mostly Cohort II project directors who shared their insights, ideas, and concerns with us.  We also incorporated feedback we received in response to an email we sent asking Cohort I project directors for their ideas for the meeting. 

In these emails and conversations, we heard concerns about sustainability expressed again and again.  The meeting agenda is designed to address those concerns and to provide extensive opportunities both for us to learn from grantees' innovative and creative approaches and for grantees to learn from each other.  Every break-out session and most of the plenary sessions include time to hear from grantees, from Cohort I in particular.  All of the break-out sessions are also designed to encourage an exchange of ideas, successes, and concerns among all participants, so come prepared to talk about what you have been doing!

Additionally, meeting participants are asked to take a few minutes before arriving at the meeting to familiarize themselves with the key elements of sustainability described in a September 2007 SPRC webinar presentation.

Legacy Wheel

Monday, January 7
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Registration Opens

 

Tuesday, January 8 – Meeting Begins
7:00 am - 8:15 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:45 am Call to Order & Welcome
Richard McKeon, Ph.D., M.P.H., Special Expert, SAMHSA/CMHS
8:45 am - 9:15 am Creating a Cultural Shift on Campus
A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director, Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA
9:15 am -10:00 am

Sustainability:  Putting the Pieces Together
Laurie Davidson,M.A., Campus Coordinator, SPRC

A quick overview of eight elements necessary to building sustainability of suicide prevention.  Two Cohort 1 grantees -- Rebecca Dayton, Syracuse University and Candice Wiggum, Keene State College – will describe how they are addressing several of these elements.

Handout
10:00 am - 10:30 am   BREAK
10:30 am - 12:00 pm   Concurrent Sessions
Right Foot In and Left Foot Out:
Cohort I 		Both Feet In:  Cohort II Grants Management and Support from SPRC
(with your SAMHSA GPO)		 Cohort II Evaluators Sharing Lessons Learned
Nancy Davis, SAMHSA; Christine Walrath-Greene & Gina Sgro, Macro International; Peggy West, SPRC Maria Dinger, SAMHSA;
Laurie Davidson, Julie Halverson, & Leah Horn, SPRC		 Ilze Ruditis, SAMHSA; Laurie Davidson, Julie Halverson, & Leah Horn SPRC Robin King & Chad Rodi, Macro International; Linda Langford & Phil Rodgers, SPRC
   
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm LUNCH Roundtables
Today’s roundtables will be organized by type (public, private, 2-year, 4-year) and number of students.
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Making Results Count:  Findings from the Cross-site Evaluation
Chad Rodi, PhD, Cross-site Evaluation Project Director, Macro International
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm BREAK
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
 
Using Data to Create Targeted Communication Plans
Shelly Rutz, University of Wisconsin.

Facilitators:  Patrick Cook & Handel Mlilo, Macro International; Julie Halverson, SPRC		 Developing Institutional Protocols to Address Distressed and Distressing Students
Kathleen Shine-O’Brien, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Mike Zebrowski, Marquette University.

Facilitators:  Joanna Locke, The Jed Foundation; Mort Silverman, SPRC		 Gatekeeper Training:  What have we learned?
Cory Wallack, Syracuse University; Nickole Scott Conerly, Howard University; Rick Low, University of California – Berkeley.

Facilitator:  Nancy Davis, SAMHSA; Peggy West, SPRC		 Coping with Increases in Requests for Help
John Hoeppel, Northeast Illinois University; Kendra Smith, University of North Carolina; Darren Wozny, Mississippi State University-Meridian.

Facilitators:  Laurie Davidson, SPRC 		Involving Key Partners On and Off Campus** Beau Dooley, NW Missouri State University; Iain Twaddle, University of Guam; Ginny Carpenter, Trinity Christian College.

Facilitator:  Leah Horn, SPRC		 Using Cross-site Data at the Local Level


Facilitators: Chad Rodi & Robin King, Macro International
**Please note:  This session is designed to address possible partners other than faculty.  Workshop focusing on Working with Faculty is scheduled for Wednesday 10:00-12:00. 
   
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm TRANSITION to Reception and Showcase
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Grantees Showcase Session & Reception  

An opportunity for grantees to display program promotional materials, press coverage, evaluation-related products and tools, materials, results of local evaluation, and more. Come browse the tables, pick up materials, and note the other grantees with whom you will want to network with throughout the rest of the meeting

 

Wednesday | Thursday

 

Last Updated on: April 8, 2008