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ForwardKY MARK: Suicide and Self-Harm: Awareness, Education and Support
The Kentucky Mental Health Care Access for Resiliency in Kids Program ensures that pediatric primary care and other providers working with children are confident and competent in screening and helping children with behavioral conditions. This training will increase the providers' knowledge and skills, resulting in earlier identification, diagnosis, and treatment for children with mild to moderate behavioral needs. Completing this educational series will advance the integration of children's behavioral health and pediatric primary care.
Needs statement: The rate of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSS) among youth and young adults has risen substantially, becoming the second leading cause of death for this age group. As a result, primary care providers require enhanced support in delivering mental health services to help reduce suicide and self-harm rates.
Target Audience
The target audience of Kentucky Mental Health Care Access for Resiliency in Kids Program includes physicians, nurses, and public health professionals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Summarize recent research on youth self-harm and suicide.
2. Recognize the need for self-harm and suicide screening tools.
3. Discuss the implementation of self-harm and suicide screening tools.
4. Apply the use of safety planning tools.
Upon completion of this educational series, participants will be able to:
1. Diagnose pediatric mental health disorders.
2. Treat pediatric mental health disorders.
3. Manage pediatric mental health disorders.
Faculty & Credentials
Amy Meadows, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
Amy Lynn Meadows is a triple-boarded pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Kentucky where she is the Dr. Laurie L. Humphries Endowed Chair in Child Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry Division Director. She received her combined MD and Master’s degrees from Yale University School of Medicine where she completed a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, and then went on to residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, including Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Western Psychiatric Hospital. Since joining the faculty of the University of Kentucky, she has won numerous teaching and mentorship awards, including the Abraham Flexner Award for excellence in medical education and the “Teacher Who Made a Difference” award. She works on the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Her research examines how adverse childhood experiences shape risk perception and the development of high-risk behaviors in adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Casey Thornton, CSW
Social Worker Senior
Department of Psychiatry
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
Casey Thornton, CSW, is a Certified Social Worker who has been in the field for eight years. The majority of her time has been spent working with youth aging out of the foster care system. Casey graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Master's of Social Work in 2024. She serves as a Social Worker Senior with UK Healthcare's Department of Psychiatry.
Disclosure Information
All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have a relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.
Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by UK HealthCare CECentral and Kentucky Department for Public Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health. University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team
Available Credit
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This Enduring activity is designated for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 0.50 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.50 nursing contact hour(s).
- 0.50 ASWB
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course.
Social workers completing this course receive 0.50 clinical continuing education credit(s).
- 0.50 ParticipationUK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 0.50 hour(s) of participation.
- 0.50 Public HealthUniversity of Kentucky College of Public Health certifies that this educational activity was designated for 0.50 hour(s) of Public Health Continuing Education (CPHCE) credit. This course is approved for continuing education by the University of Kentucky College of Public Health.