NAMI Ask the Expert: Suicide Prevention Session 3: Creative Approaches to Suicide Prevention

Course overview

This course, the final installment in a 3-part series based on the Ask the Expert webinar by NAMI, explores innovative and creative approaches to suicide prevention through lived experience and community-based initiatives. Panelists share personal journeys and describe the use of expressive arts, community baking projects, and peer leadership as tools to foster hope, reduce stigma, and create meaningful connections. Designed for social workers, psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other helping professionals, the course highlights both clinical and non-clinical strategies that expand the traditional suicide prevention toolkit. The course, with an intended audience of social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors, then presents clinical and non-clinical strategies that expand the traditional suicide prevention toolkit.