Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course offers guidance and positive strategies for mental health promotion and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ youth. The course highlights affirming environments, professional competence, culturally competent care, risk and protective factors, and sources of joy. Tips and advice from LGBTQIA2S+ youth and adults are shared, and the importance of involving LGBTQIA2S+ youth in the development of programs is emphasized. The course includes the HRC Glossary of Terms for help with terminology.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Unfortunately, this course is not available in CE Broker for Florida professionals.
Reading #1: Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth: A Resource Guide for Professionals, Families, and Communities Publisher: Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Reading #2: Glossary of Terms Publisher: Human Rights Campaign
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring mental health promotion and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ youth.
Learning Objectives: Identify positive strategies for supporting LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Identify professional and cultural considerations. Share tips from LGBTQIA2S+ youth.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.