OD014 NAMI Ask the Expert: Suicide Prevention Session 1: The AFSP & The JED Foundation

Course overview

This course, based on the Ask the Expert webinar series by NAMI, is the first session in NAMI's Suicide Prevention Series. Featuring experts from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and The JED Foundation, the session explores national and community strategies to prevent suicide across diverse populations. Corbin Standley presents Project 2025, AFSP's bold initiative to reduce the annual suicide rate by 2025 by focusing on four critical areas: firearms, healthcare systems, emergency departments, and correctional facilities. Dr. Nance Roy highlights JED's public health approach to suicide prevention for adolescents and young adults, emphasizing resilience, connectedness, early identification, and campus-wide systems change in schools and universities. Together, the presentations underscore evidence-based, systemic, and compassionate strategies that can save lives and reduce stigma. The course, with an intended audience of social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors, provides actionable tools for building safer, more inclusive systems of care.