Recorded Webinars

• How to Connect with Student Veterans on Campus
  Date: May 16, 2013

  While an increasing number of higher education institutions are building and delivering important services to support their military and Veteran students, many of them face a crucial challenge: how to identify those students who are veterans so they can ensure that they are aware of and utilize the available services?
  
  Listen to this webinar where leading experts from schools around the country discussed the specific tactics and strategies they are implementing to better identify veterans on their campuses. Speakers included representatives from universities and community colleges in Texas and Florida.
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/564484695

• Gatekeeper Training for School Personnel- Lessons Learned from Four Statewide Initiatives
  Date: May 14, 2013

  Suicide prevention gatekeeper training for school personnel is increasingly mandated by state legislation and often included as part of statewide suicide prevention strategies. How does this broad and often unfunded mandate get implemented? Hear from several states that have successfully rolled out statewide training programs. Listen to a free, one-hour webinar with experts from Kentucky, Ohio, Oregon and Texas who shared their approaches, lessons learned, and successes in engaging their states in gatekeeper training initiatives.
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/484729759

• Supporting LGBTQ Youth in Arizona Schools and Communities
  Date: April 17, 2013

  LGBTQ youth face unique challenges in our schools and communities that put them at statistically higher risk for social isolation, bullying, and suicide. Please join us for an informative discussion about Step In, Speak Up! a unique 30-minute online training simulation for middle and high school educators about fostering a positive school climate for youth regardless of their sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity.
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/412741359

• New Mexico Rolls Out Statewide Mental Health Training for K-12 Educators
  Date: April 16, 2013

  Learn about a new avatar-based suicide prevention training simulation for High School educators and staff. Kognito’s At-Risk for High School Educators provides hands on practice talking with students experiencing psychological distress, including depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide. Nancy Kirkpatrick, Youth Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator at the New Mexico Department of Health, will discuss how her agency is making the training freely available to all New Mexico public high school educators.
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/262699615

• Supporting Veterans on Campus - Part 3
  Date: March 19, 2013

  Listen to this webinar to learn about different veteran programs and strategies that leading experts and schools around the country are implementing to address certain challenges, and how they build the business case to secure funding to support these initiatives.
  
  The Webinar featured John Schupp, creator of the SERV (Supportive Education for the Returning Veteran) Program, National Director for Next Great Generation (NGG), Tiffin University, Steve Rellinger, Director of the Veterans Resource Center at Central Michigan University and Mark Stevens, Director of University Counseling Services at California State University at Northridge
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/773181015

• Lessons Learned in Suicide Prevention: Getting Started
  Date: March 17, 2013

  Are you leading a campus suicide prevention initiative or considering starting one? 
  
  If so, you will want to listen to a free, one-hour webinar where experienced professionals from Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and The Campus Suicide Prevention Center of Virginia shared their top tips and proven strategies for implementing successful suicide prevention initiatives and common mistakes to avoid. 
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/446220879
  

• California Rolls Out New Statewide Mental Health Training for K-12 Educators
  Date: March 12, 2013

  Listen to this webinar to learn about a California statewide initiative that trains K-12 educators to support early identification of mental health issues and strategies for addressing such issues at a classroom and school-wide level.
  
  The Webinar featured Monica Nepomuceno, Education Programs Consultant/Mental Health Programs at the California Department of Education, Michael Lombardo, Director of Student Services and Supports at Placer County Office of Education, and Craig Gibbs, Student Intervention Specialist at Placer County Office of Education.
  
  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here:
  https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/500556647

• Best Practices in Implementing Campus Suicide Prevention Programs
  Date: February 22, 2013

  Featured schools in this webinar included: Kansas State, Vanderbilt, Penn State Altoona, Colorado State, and St. Cloud State. Learn how they:
  
  

  • Gained support of school leadership and key stakeholders
  • Increased faculty and student engagement through competitions and incentives
  • Achieved institutional acceptance to mandate training and award credits

  To listen to a recording of the webinar, please click here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/505452015

• Part 3: Suicide Prevention Best Practices - Florida Atlantic & Texas State Universities
  Date: December 5, 2012

  According to a study at the University of Virginia, suicide is the leading cause of death among college students. This Webinar series aims to illuminate best practices for helping to create a broader safety net on college campuses. Webinar panelists included:
  
  

  • Dr. Diane Alperin, Associate Provost, Florida Atlantic University
  • Dr. Corey King, Associate Vice President & Dean of Students, Florida AtlanticUniversity
  • Dr. Blanca Sanchez-Navarro, Asst. Dir. of Educational Programming & Outreach,Texas State University
  • Dr. Catherine Bitney, Psychology Postdoctoral Resident, Texas State University

  View the webinar by clicking here.
  
  The Webinar was facilitated by Dr. Glenn Albright, Director of Applied Research at Kognito Interactive, who also provided a brief demo of the At-Risk training simulation. This training, adopted by over 400 institutions across the country, is listed in the Suicide Prevention Resources Center’s Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s Best Practices Registry.

• Avatar-Based Suicide Prevention Training for Middle School Educators
  Date: November 8, 2012

  This Webinar was about Kognito’s At-Risk for Middle School Educators, hosted by Mary Ellen Nudd, vice president of Mental Health America of Texas, whose agency is providing the training to over 75,000 public middle school educators in Texas. Ms. Nudd was be joined by Jenna Heise, suicide prevention coordinator for the Texas Dept. of State Health Services. They discussed the public health imperatives behind this effort and the plan to disseminate the training across the State. Kognito CEO, Ron Goldman, will present a live demonstration of the new training simulation.
  
  View the webinar by clicking here.

• Part 2: Suicide Prevention Best Practices - Featuring University of Arizona & Kansas State University
  Date: October 9, 2012

  Large universities face unique challenges in implementing suicide prevention efforts as they have to coordinate within large and often disparate campus communities. In this Webinar, representatives from two large universities will discuss their institutions' challenges, initiatives, lessons learned, and successes in engaging their campuses in suicide prevention initiatives. One of these initiatives is the implementation of Kognito's At-Risk online gatekeeper training for faculty and students. Panelists included:
  
  Peggy Glider, Evaluation Coordinator at the the University of Arizona and the Arizona Department of Health Services
  
  Dr. Dorinda Lambert, Director of Counseling at Kansas State University
  
  View the webinar by clicking here.
  
  The Webinar was facilitated by Ron Goldman, Co-Founder of Kognito Interactive, who also provided a brief demo of the At-Risk training simulation. This training, adopted by over 400 institutions across the country, is listed in the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's Best Practices Registry. (www.SPRC.org)
  A demo can be viewed at www.kognito.com.

• Part 1: Suicide Prevention Best Practices - Featuring Penn State & Rutgers University
  Date: September 20, 2012
  

  In this free Webinar, Dr. Joy Himmel, Associate Director of Health and Wellness at Penn State Altoona and Michael Miragliotta, Resident Life Coordinator at Rutgers Universitydiscussed their institution's current and future student-oriented suicide prevention and gatekeeper training initiatives. Such initiatives include training all freshmen students at Penn State Altoona, and all RAs at Rutgers, using Kognito's At-Risk training simulation.
  
  View the webinar by clicking here.
  
  The Webinar was facilitated by Dr. Glenn Albright, Director of Applied Research at Kognito Interactive who also provided a brief demo of the At-Risk training simulation. This training, adopted by over 100 institutions across the country has been recently accepted for inclusion in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). A demo can be viewed at www.kognito.com.

• Targeting the ED to Reduce Suicide and Substance Abuse
  Date: March 14, 2012

  This webinar discusses a statewide initiative in Arizona to enlist the staff of the State’s 80 Emergency Departments in identifying, screening and referring for treatment or follow up patients that are at-risk for suicide or substance abuse. The 45 minute session features Lisa Shumaker, Office Chief, Prevention Services, Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services, and her colleague, Markay Adams, Suicide Prevention Coordinator discussing:
  
  
  
  

  • The rationale behind the program – including increasing poisoning rates, rising costs and elimination of funding for behavioral health services (1:10)
  • The planning – including needs analysis, opportunities for change and barriers, the logic model and funding sources (15:15)
  • Implementation of the program (26:12)
  • Discussion of an online interactive training simulation, Kognito’s At-Risk in the ED (30:11)
  • Evalution and Next steps (42:33)

  
  
  The Webinar was facilitated by Jennifer Spiegler, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Kognito Interactive. Kognito, a developer of online training simulations, has recently released “At-Risk in the ED” an online interactive course designed to educate emergency department staff on how to identify and screen patients for suicide and substance abuse risk. A demo of the course can be viewed at www.kognito.com.

• Supporting Veterans on Campus
  Date: February 28, 2012

  During this one hour Webinar, you will hear from three experts about their institution’s current and future veteran-facing initiatives and lessons learned. A Q&A will follow the panel discussion (Starts 28:08).
  
  
  
  Panelists include:
  
  

  • Sheryl Frye, LCSW – Assistant Dir. of Counseling, Military Student Services, Northern Illinois University (Starts 03:57)
  • Bill Smith - President of the College Educators for Veterans and Health Educator at University of Missouri (Starts 11:15)
  • Martha Mead - Special Projects Coordinator, Virginia Wounded Warrior Program (Starts 18:40)

  
  
  The Webinar was facilitated by Ron Goldman, Co-Founder of Kognito Interactive. Kognito, a developer of online training simulations, has recently released “Veterans on Campus” an online interactive course designed to educate faculty and staff how to create a supportive campus environment for veterans. A demo of the course can be viewed at www.kognito.com.

• VA NY / NJ Launches “Family of Heroes”, an Avatar-Based Resiliency Training for Veteran Families
  Date: November 15, 2011

  

• NY Launches Statewide Use of Kognito At-Risk for High School Educators
  Date: August 23, 2011

  Thirty thousand teachers in New York State will be trained over the next three years using Kognito’s At-Risk. Hosted by Melanie Puorto, director of suicide prevention initiatives for NYS Office of Mental Health, this webinar discusses why her office selected this innovative training platform and what they hope to achieve on behalf of New York’s youth and families. Ms. Puorto also explains how schools can join the program and plans for its evaluation. Ms. Puorto is joined in the Webinar by Melissa Evingham, Asst. Supt. of the Lakeshore Central School District in Upstate New York, who talks about how the training aligns with her districts "whole child" philosophy. Kognito CEO Ron Goldman demonstrates the simulation and discusses the results of a quasi-experimental research study conducted among over 300 teachers in 40 states.
  
  
  
  Pt. 1: Overview
  Pt. 2: Demonstration of At-Risk
  Pt. 3: The Educators’ Perspective
  Pt. 4: Results from a National Survey of At-Risk
  Pt. 5: Roll-out, Evaluation Plan and Q&A

• Supporting LGBTQ Youth in our Schools and Communities
  Date: May, 2011

  This panel discussion, facilitated by Melanie Puorto, director of the New York State Office of Mental Health’s Suicide Prevention Initiative, will discuss fostering a positive school climate for teens in school regardless of their sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity.
  Feature panelists include members of The Trevor Project, The Long Island Crisis Center’s Pride for Youth program, and Price Center of the Capital Region.
  
  
  
  Pt. 1: Welcome
  Pt. 2a: Pride for Youth
  Pt. 2b: Pride for Youth
  Pt. 3: Price Center of Capital Region
  Pt. 4a: The Trevor Project
  Pt. 4b: The Trevor Project
  Webinar Q & A (PDF)

• Penn State Altoona’s Mental Health Initiatives
  Date: April, 2010

  Dr. Glenn Albright, Director of Applied Research at Kognito Interactive, is joined by Dr. Joy Himmel, Associate Director of Health and Wellness at Penn State Altoona, who will discuss her campus’ mental health initiatives. Dr. Albright provides an overview of Kognito’s At-Risk training simulation.
  
  
  
  Pt. 1: Introductions
  Pt. 2: Penn State Altoona Mental Health Initiatives
  Pt. 3: Kognito’s At-Risk Demonstration
  Pt. 4: Correlations Between Counseling and Student Retention
  Pt. 5: Best Practices for Implementing Initiatives