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The SPRC Discussion Series on Suicide Prevention

Utah Youth Suicide Study Phase VI: Treatment for those at highest risk for suicide in Utah-Juvenile Offenders

Michelle Moskos, Research Instructor, Department of Pediatrics/Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah
March 29, 2005

Dr. Moskos, Research Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Utah, will be presenting on Phase VI of the Utah Youth Suicide Study. This phase, which is currently underway, is a treatment study that provides rapid access to mental health services for teenage males in Third District Juvenile Court, those youth who are at highest risk for suicide in Utah. Previous phases of the study examined data from a variety of state agencies, including Juvenile Justice, and involved the completion of the Youth Outcome Questionnaire. These activities demonstrated that youth in the Juvenile Justice system have poor mental health, which may increase the recidivism rate, and that approximately 63% of youth included in the data analysis who had completed suicide had previous or ongoing contact with Juvenile Justice.

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Speaker's Biography

Michelle Moskos' photograph

Dr. Michelle Moskos received her Masters in Public Health and Health Services Administration through the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in 1997 and her Doctorate through the Department of Health Promotion and Education in 2000 at the University of Utah. In 2001, Dr. Moskos began working as a co-investigator for the Utah Youth Suicide Study with Dr. Doug Gray in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah. The study is in its 11th year, and Dr. Moskos is responsible for managing the current phase, a treatment study that provides rapid access to mental health services for teenage males in Third District Juvenile Court, those youth who are at highest risk for suicide in Utah. Dr. Moskos accepted a faculty position as a Research Instructor with the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics in February 2004 in order to continue her work related to the Utah Youth Suicide Study at the Intermountain Injury Control Research Center. In 2004, the UYSS team partnered with National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Utah Chapter), the Utah Parent Teacher Association, and the Utah Office of Education to implement and evaluate a mental health education program among 12,000 students in both rural and urban public high schools.

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Participants

Dr. Michelle Moskos, University of Utah, Intermountain Injury Control Research Center

Robert Carlton, South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control

Sarah Frazier, University of Utah, Intermountain Injury Control Research Center

Stefanie Harrison, SPRC

Louisa Holmes, SPRC (Moderator)

Margie Hudson, State of Connecticut Department of Public Health

Barbara Kaminer, Kentucky Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services

David Litts, SPRC

Jennifer Martin, Illinois Department of Public Health

Patrice Melvin, SPRC

Jane Ann Miller, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

LaVonne Ortega, SPRC

Jason Padgett, Kentucky Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services

Heidi Smith, Children's Safety Network

Ramya Sundararaman, SPRC

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