Taking Action, Saving Lives: SPIN’s 2025 Suicide Prevention Conference

Join us for SPIN’s annual Taking Action, Saving Lives Conference — a full-day event focused on advancing suicide prevention efforts across our region. This year’s conference takes place on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at the Holiday Inn in Clarkston, WA.

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Kate Comtois, renowned suicidologist and professor at the University of Washington, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Comtois will present two powerful CEU-eligible sessions:

• Suicide Assessment & Management: Synthesizing Client-Centered Care with Joint Commission Requirements
• Ethics of Suicide Prevention in Healthcare: Attending to Both Risk Management and Self-Care

This conference is designed for mental health professionals, medical providers, social workers, school counselors, suicide survivors, first responders, clergy, and anyone passionate about suicide prevention and community wellness.

🎓 5 CEUs available🍽️ Light breakfast provided🎟️ Early bird pricing available through August 30th

Let’s build stronger, more connected communities through education, collaboration, and hope.

Info: Content:
● Major theories and known evidence about why people die by suicide
● The Joint Commission standards for suicide risk identification, assessment and
management
● Centering the client’s story of their suicidal thoughts or suicide attempt
● Integrating the client’s story and risk and protective factors to formulate their acute and
chronic suicide risk
● Deciding on an immediate management plan and treatment referrals

Learning Objectives
● Compare and contrast key drivers of suicide
● Discuss the client’s experience of suicidality and its treatment
● Describe The Joint Commission standards for suicide prevention
● Discuss the narrative approach to suicide risk assessment
● Describe acute and chronic risk formulation

Info: Content
● Ethical principles and legal issues associated with caring for suicidal clients
● Navigating tensions between client needs, system limitations, and clinician risk
management
● The core role of treatment teams in addressing both risk management and clinician
self-care
Learning Objectives
● Discuss the key ethical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, respect for
persons, and responsibility as they relate to suicide care
● Describe client’s experience of health care when disclosing suicidal thoughts or behavior
● Compare and contrast needs of the client, system, and risk management when a client is
suicidal
● Discuss how clinical treatment teams can attend to risk management and self-care

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Holiday Inn Clarkston - Lewiston, an IHG Hotel, Port Drive, Clarkston, WA, USA, United States