SEPTEMBER SUICIDE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH – RBHS Professional Well-Being

September 2023

Calendar of Events

Care and Connect

WEEK ONE

Thursday, September 07

9:00 am – 11:00 am – QPR Training Session featuring Laura Burns, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (Virtual)

Topic: QPR (Questions, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention Training

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

Audience: All RBHS Community Members

Link to Register: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvduivqD0oGdcOzaFtZf0kPBOeAuNdTsQa#/registration

Thursday, September 7

Deadline for T-shirt Competition (Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, NJ)

Topic: T-Shirt competition with the theme of “Be a light that sustains a life.”

Tabling Events for t-shirt display and suicide resources to follow.

Audience: Open to All Trinitas Employees

WEEK TWO

Tuesday, September 12

11:00 am – Grand Rounds featuring Rashi Aggarwal, MD, FACLP, DFAPA (Rutgers NJMS – RWJMS Departments of Psychiatry) (Virtual)

Topic: Patient and Physician Well-being

Audience: All RBHS Community Members

Link to Attend: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93346312802pwd=aFptWC9YSHFMUFlQVnJjUWR4Y2FaZz09

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Wednesday, September 13

12:00 pm-1:00 pm – Lunch & Learn, featuring Dr. Megan Maroney, (Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy)

Topic: Presentation on Medication & Suicide:

Untangling the Facts from the Fiction

This session will provide an overview of the evidence regarding various medications and risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors as well as interventions that may reduce suicide risk.

Audience: Open to all healthcare professionals and students

Link To Attend: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95571368368pwd=R0pvS1JwOVEyZ0xNVzBqWFpQRUIvUT09

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Thursday, September 14

11:00 am– 1:30 pm – One Source EAP (In-Person at Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC), Jersey City)

Topic: Learn about the 5 things You can do to help prevent suicide

Find out how One Source EAP can help you and your family members.

Pick up some EAP branded items.

Audience: Open to all JCMC Employees

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Thursday, September 14

7:30 am-8:30 am – Graduate Medical Education (GME) Grand Rounds
featuring Dr. Kristine Olson (Virtual)

Topic: Power Pause: Leading Yourself and Others Toward Well-being-for job-crafting

Learn strategies to move from stress to success as you craft your job and support your well-being

Audience: GME faculty, residents and fellows from all specialties, medical students and residency/fellowship program coordinators

Link to Attend:

https://rutgers.webex.com/rutgers/j.php?MTID=m022335a78555c7fa9f47e6ea80bf17f1

Webinar number (access code): 2623 538 3560-

Webinar password: 28yhNwimmR7

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Thursday, September 14

12:00 pm-1:00 pm – RBHS-wide Interprofessional Grand Rounds featuring Dr. Kristine Olson (Virtual)

Topic: Power Pause: Leading Yourself and Others Toward Well-being-for support and connections at work

Learn strategies to stay well and help colleagues stay well as we navigate from stress to success in the work environment.

Audience: All RBHS, RWJBH, and UH faculty, clinicians, staff, and learners

including residents, fellows and students.

Link to Attend:

https://rutgers.webex.com/rutgers/j.php?MTID=m757d54672e3ab95aa3b122e7cf71a0fb

Webinar number (access code): 2621 382 9251

Webinar password: 6R3TsiWmQn9

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Thursday, September 14

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – QPR Training Session featuring Laura Burns, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (Virtual)

Topic: QPR (Questions, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention Training

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

Audience: All RBHS Community Members

Link to Register:

https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfumgqzgoHd1ttl1XRMIwp62f_TdaRT#/registration

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Friday, September 15

12:00 pm – Schwartz Rounds – Panel Discussion (Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

(In-Person and Virtual)

Topic: “The Power of Human Connection”

Audience: Open to all

Link to Attend:

https://rwjbh-org.zoom.us/j/92649913990?pwd=eWVPN20wWEtJUGVJSDhYdGl2OUlrZz09

Meeting ID: 926 4991 3990

Passcode: 099341

WEEK THREE

Monday, September 18

11:30 am – 2:00 pm EAP Source One Table (In-person at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

Audience: Open to All MMC Employees

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Tuesday, September 19

11:30am – 2:00 pm – Mental Health Table “reducing Self Harm” (In-person at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

Audience: Open to All MMC Employees

Tuesday, September 19

ALL DAY – The Butterfly Mural Tabling Event (In-person at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

(Please note that this event is scheduled for the entire month.)

A mural will be used to provide education and raise awareness of suicide, self-harm, and non-suicidal self-injury.

Audience: Open to All MMC Employees

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Wednesday, September 20

9:00 am – 11:00 am – QPR Training Session featuring Stephanie Marcello, PhD

(Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care) (Virtual)

Topic: QPR (Questions, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention Training

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

Audience: All RBHS Community Members

Link to Register:

https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdOmgqzkvHdyztOBAKgNnaOQqzDAVgm5X#/registration

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Wednesday, September 20

11:15 am – 12:00 pm Seminar featuring Dr. Fred Foley, (Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC), Jersey City) (Virtual)

Topic: “Suicide Awareness”

Suicide continues to be a major public health problem in the United States. This seminar will teach the sometimes-subtle signs of someone who may be contemplating suicide and what actions participants can take when someone they know is suicidal.

Link to Attend:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81556760228?pwd=YUlFdnZCOEd2akY0cTNBYTV4RVFzdz09

Meeting ID: 815 5676 0228

Passcode: 997432

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Wednesday, September 20

11:30 am – 2:00 pm – Peer to Peer Support (In-person at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

Audience: Open to All MMC Employees

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Thursday, September 21

11:00 am – Combined Presentation featuring Mamilda Robinson, DNP, APN (Rutgers School of Nursing) and Marthe Leveille, DNP, RN (University Hospital)

Topic: Strategies for Wellness and Resilience to Prevent Suicidal Behavior

Audience: Members of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, University Hospital and RWJBarnabas Health

Link to Attend: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95520535130?pwd=dkVNVVRRb04vMXgzS2NJVGdiRFcxQT09

Meeting ID: 955 2053 5130

Password: 952810

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Thursday, September 21

11:30 am – 2:00 pm – Holistic Committee Supporting Self-Care (In-person at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC), Long Branch)

Audience: Open to All MMC Employees

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Thursday, September 21

12:00 pm- Interactive Session featuring Margaret Swarbrick, PhD

Explore ways healthcare professionals and trainees can apply wellness using an 8 Dimension model to bolster strengths to meet challenges related to a range of work life stressors. Engage with a wellness tool to consider how this model can be personally and professionally applied to promote personal work life balance and well-being.

Audience: All RBHS, RWJBH or UH faculty clinician, professional staff and learners.

Link to Attend: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92371901126?pwd=ZlRTNmNPSWo5WFhmeTdQSStNRnJLQT09

Meeting ID: 923 7190 1126

Password: 337190

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Thursday, September 21

3:00 pm – Presentation featuring Ann Murphy, PhD (RBHS-SHP) & William Zimmerman, LCSW (UBHC) (Virtual)

Topic: 988 Mental Health Call-Line: An Overview for Health Providers & Educators

This presentation will provide an overview of the 988 Lifeline, which provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress and crisis resources for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crisis. We will discuss when and how 988 could be helpful during interactions with patients, students or colleagues and offer additional resources for people who are in emotional crisis.

Audience: Healthcare providers and educators in fields such as medicine, dentistry, nursing, physician assistant, physical therapy, occupational therapy, sonography, dietetics, and speech therapy.