Speaker

Monica Matthieu, PhD

This workshop is designed to prepare front line workers with competencies for engaging and responding to adults who may be at risk for suicide. This training will focus on appropriate intake questions, assessment issues, and a recommended tool for managing risk, with specific focus on safety planning in the context of suicide prevention. The focus of this presentation is on assessing and managing adults at risk for suicide and skills related to micro practice. Case examples will focus on the veteran population and materials from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ suicide prevention program.

Gotham, PhD, Heather

Heather Gotham, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Research Professor within the Collaborative for Excellence in Behavioral Health Research and Practice at UMKC’s School of Nursing and Health Studies. Dr. Gotham’s research focuses on implementation of evidence-based behavioral health treatments and assessments for adolescents and adults, integrating substance use disorders and health care services, SBIRT, and treatment fidelity for co-occurring disorders. She also studies interprofessional education and other nursing education initiatives.

Crask-Ellis, LPC, MS, CCDP-D, Leah

Leah Crask-Ellis, MS, LPC, CCDP-D is an outpatient therapist for Community Counseling Center in Perryville, MO. Leah is a trained Trevor Project CARE Workshop presenter and has presented in the past on Mental Health in the Workplace, Suicide Prevention amoung LGBT Individuals, Managing Suicidal ldeations in the Co-occurring Client and the above presentation. She is on the Board of Directors of Survivors of Loved Ones to Suicide, AFSP- Eastern Missouri Chapter, and Rainbow Cafe, a LGBT youth and young adult drop-in center in rural southern Illinois.

Bell, MD, Carl C.

Dr. Carl C. Bell, M.D. is Staff Psychiatrist at Jackson Park Hospital’s Outpatient Family Practice Clinic and Inpatient Consultation Liaison Service. He is a Retired Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 45 years, he has published more than 500 articles, chapters, & books on mental health and authored The Sanity of Survival. He is co-editor of Pequegnat W and Bell CC (eds). Family and HIV/AIDS: Cultural and Contextual Issues in Prevention and Treatment and Jeste D and Bell CC (eds). Psychiatric Clinics of North America – Prevention in Psychiatry.

Presentations:

Risk Factors are Not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors

Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders associated with Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol (ND-PAE)

Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, Terri

Ms. Terri Cooley- Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker, and a Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Missouri Western State University and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University Of Kansas. She is experienced in homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, trauma and poverty. Ms. Cooley-Bennett is a Behavioral Health Consultant at Swope Health Services and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Kansas. She is a speaker and has served on the board of the National Association of Social Workers Missouri Chapter.