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  • Sunday, May 17, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM CST
    Morning Coffee/Tea
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk: Essentials for Clinicians© (2-Day Course)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Suicide Death Investigation Course © (2-Day Course)
  • 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • Monday, May 18, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CST
    Morning Coffee/Tea
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Information Booth
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    LivingWorks safeTALK
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    NASW Standards for Ethical Practices in Suicide Risk Assessment
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    iCarol Training and Software User Group
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    QPR Gatekeeper Instructor Certification Course
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk: Essentials for Clinicians© (2-Day Course)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Suicide Death Investigation Course © (2-Day Course)
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Beyond the Hand-Off: Making 911/988 Interoperability Work in Real Life
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Suicide Prevention: Considerations for Special Populations©
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE Approach): The Delicate Art of Uncovering Suicidal Ideation
  • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM CST
    Bookstore
  • 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM CST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 9:45 PM - 10:15 AM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Morning Coffee/Tea
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Information Booth
  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Keynote: Mentors, Collaborators, and Friends – How to Sustain a Career in Suicidology
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Keynote: Revisiting Perceived Burdensomeness: Exploring the Role of Contribution to Others
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Wellness Room
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Keynote
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    15 years of Zero Suicide: Looking Back -- Looking Forward
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    988 Update - Progress and Future Directions
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Beyond PTSD: How Lived Experience, Moral Injury, and System Leadership Shape Suicide Prevention
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Beyond the Statistics: Humanizing Childhood Suicide Through Stories and Advocacy
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 1
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Strengthening Suicide Prevention Through Fatality Review: Elevating Data, Dialogue, and Community-Level Action
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Suicide-Safer Workplaces: Designing Prevention-Friendly Work Environments
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Turning the Tide on Youth Suicide: Evidence, Progress, and Optimism
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Advancing Nurse Suicidology: Evidence, Lived Experience, and Emerging Science for a Stronger Workforce Prevention Agenda
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Clinical Innovation for Suicide Prevention in Systems of Care: What’s Working for Whom
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Developing the Behavioral Health Crisis Counselor Workforce: Alignment of National and Local Center Standards
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Elevating Unheard Voices
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 2
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Silent Aftershocks: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention for First Responders and National Guard During Natural Disasters.
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Someone to Talk to: Youth-led Design and Evaluation of a 988 Peer-to-Peer Education Pilot
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Unpacking the Unknowns: A Framework for Evaluating Suicide Prevention in the U.S.
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    988 Is Good Medicine: Developing A Crisis Line Counselor Training Module To Better Serve Native Help-Seekers
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    A Cultural Infusion Implementation Framework for Sites Using the Zero Suicide Approach, With Lessons from New York State
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    A Public Health Approach to Campus Suicide Prevention: Outcomes and Innovations from the JED Foundation
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Advancing Statewide Crisis System Transformation: The Commonwealth of VA’s Journey
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    International Perspectives on Post-Contact Feedback Surveys for Crisis Helplines: Best Practices and Innovations
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Post-Traumatic Growth in Loss Survivors: The 6 R's of Grief
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Suicide Prevention in the World of Sports: From Youth to Professional
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    The Power of Connection: Community-Driven Suicide Prevention
  • 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Breaking Down the Silos: Community-based Development of a Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Community Helper Training
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Bridging Systems And Stories: Lived Experience In The Zero Suicide Movement
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Collaboration with Correctional Facilities: Enhancing Support for 988 Lifeline Contacts from Individuals Residing in Jails and Prisons
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Contemporary Treatments for Complicated Grief through Meaning Making in Suicide Loss Survivors
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Leveraging Cross-Departmental Collaboration to Advance Campus Suicide Prevention: Integrated Mental Health Initiatives at the University of California, Riverside
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Moving from Talk to Action: An Innovative Comprehensive Program for Employee-Focused Suicide Prevention Across a Large Healthcare System
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    QPR for Law Enforcement: Evidence-Based Peer Intervention for Suicide Prevention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    SAMHSA’s Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Program – Implementation that Works
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CST
    Poster Sessions
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST
    The Sanctuary Social
  • Wednesday, May 20, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CST
    Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Information Booth
  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Keynote: Suicide Prevention for all Youth: Culturally Inclusive Approaches
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST
    Wellness Room
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Applying Thirty Years of Suicide Prevention Research to Community-Based Solutions
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    From Training to Practice: Using Structured Mentorship to Strengthen Crisis Counselor Confidence and Suicide Prevention Care
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Moving the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide Upstream: A Network-Informed Social Change Approach to Suicide Prevention
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Protective Pathways: Highlighting upstream bright spots in the field of suicide prevention
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Restoring Mission, Restoring Lives: A uCommunity-Centered Strategy for Veteran Suicide Prevention
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Rewiring Hope: How Neuroscience Explains Mindfulness as a Lifeline in Suicide Prevention
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Suicide Prevention: A Discussion with the Editor of AAS's Journal, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Dr. Thomas Joiner
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    When Identity Becomes a Battleground: LGBTGEQIAP+ Allostatic Load and the Science of Surviving Chronic Threat
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    AAS Talk 1
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Empowering Student Voice: Evidence-Supported Peer-Led Prevention Movements in Schools
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    From First Response to Prevention: Coordinated Crisis Care in Rural & Frontier Communities
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Part I – What I Couldn’t Save, I Carried: Lived Experience, Early-Career Suicide Loss, Survivor Guilt, & Trauma Neuroscience
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Public Health Paper Session 1
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 3
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Well-Being Among a National Sample of 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Center Workers: Mixed-Methods Findings and Actionable Strategies
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    What We Learned After the Unthinkable: Postvention, Healing, and Suicide Prevention
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    An Experiential Introduction to Catalyzing Therapy with Values and Reasons for Living
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Breaking Barriers: Innovative Firearm Suicide Prevention Strategies in Missouri’s Heartland
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    First Responders / Service Members Paper Session 1
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    From AI Tools to Clinical Impact: Achieving (and Measuring) Results in Responsible Ways
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Integrating Zero Suicide in Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 4
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    The Dual Impact of Digital Platforms on Youth Suicide Risk: Benefits, Problems, and Clinical Implications
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    When Help Hurts: A Survivor's Story for Safer Youth Care
  • 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    AAS Talk 2
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Clinical / Clinicians Paper Session 1
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Integrating 988 Infrastructure into Pediatric ED Care: Feasibility of Post-Discharge Proactive Outreach
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Mission Connect Vermont: A Governor’s Challenge initiative to prevent suicide among Service Members, Veterans and their Families
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 5
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Staying in the Work: Persistence, Hope and the Future of Tribal Crisis Response
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Trauma Prepared Workplace Workshop
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Using Brain Science to Aid in Postvention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Building Effective Partnerships for Comprehensive School-Based Suicide Prevention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Ensuring Competence and Confidence in a Crisis: An Innovative Approach to Suicide Prevention Training for Primary and Specialty Care
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Factors Impacting Officer Suicide and Effective Interventions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Four Years Into 988 & Crisis Response Accreditation Standards
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Managing Crisis Call Center Staff with Best Practices and Technology-Enhanced Strategies
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Moving America’s Soul on Suicide: A Film Screening and Facilitated Dialogue
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Putting Context into Practice: Using the Individuals-in-Contexts Model to Strengthen Black LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 6
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
    The Hidden Story Behind LA’s 911-to-988 Diversion: Culture Change, Trust, and Real-Life Impact
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CST
    Suicidologist Mentoring Session
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CST
    Member Policy Discussion: An AAS Community Conversation on MAID
  • Thursday, May 21, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM CST
    Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM CST
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM CST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Information Booth
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Registration
  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Overview of AAS Strategic Plan
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Researcher Roundtable
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Wellness Room
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    AAS Talk 4
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Building the Competence and Capacity of the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Workforce
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Hope on the Move: Bridging Mobile Crisis Response with the Zero Suicide Framework
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Integrating Narrative Identity in Suicidology: A Clinical Exploration of Story, Identity, and Suicide
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Let's Stop the Stigma Before it Starts; Using Neuroscience, Play and a Hope, Help, Strengths Based Approach to Suicide Prevention in Elementary Schools.
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Quiet Battles: What Military Leaders Carry—and How Moral Health Heals
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 7
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Si Hasin: Sustainable Approach to Suicide Prevention and Awareness
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    AAS Talk 3
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Addressing Youth Suicide Risk Across the Care Continuum: An Integrated Hospital-Based Model from Screening to School Reintegration
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    CIS Collaborating with Crisis Response Teams to Support our Most Vulnerable Population
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    From Crisis to Connection: Systematic Approaches and Coalition Building to Improve Collegiate Mental Health and Belonging
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Growing Together: Enhancing Community Engagement Strategies for Veteran Suicide Prevention
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 8
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    When MAID Meets Suicidality: Risk, Capacity, and Vulnerability in Mental-Disorder-Only Regimes
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Zero Suicide at Scale: Practical Strategies and Lessons from a Large Social Service Organization
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    AAS Talk 5
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    AAS Talk 6
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Addressing Postvention at a State Level
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    From Awareness to Action: Scaling School-Based Suicide Prevention and Resiliency-Building to Improve Youth Outcomes
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Implementation of Transitions of Care Coordination Services for Patients at Risk of Suicide
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Research / Innovation Paper Session 9
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    VICKS it. Validate, Identify, Connect, Knowledge, and Support Latinx/Hispanic student’s mental health to prevent suicide
  • 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST
    Coffee/Tea Break
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Keynote: The Importance of Empathy and Connection in Crisis Response
  • Friday, May 22, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM CST
    Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM CST
    Bookstore
  • 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM CST
    Information Booth
  • 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM CST
    Registration
  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Healing After Suicide Loss Summit Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Keynote: The Canyon of Why
  • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CST
    Wellness Room
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Cracking the Code: A New Way for Survivors to Make Sense of Suicide
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    From Traumatic Witness of Suicide to Creative Purpose: Writing as Resiliency & Reconstructing Identity
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Part II – Conversion Therapy, Minority Stress & Suicide: Shutdown Physiology and Polyvagal–Somatic Approaches to Clinician Capacity After Loss
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Support Group: Family Loss
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Holding Space While Carrying Loss ; A Clinician’s Journey Through Sibling Suicide Bereavement
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Still in the Story: Meaning, Relationship, and Suicide Bereavement Over Time
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Support Group: Friend Loss
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    What Do You Mean My Family Is Not Normal?
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    A Hero’s Journey: Finding Peace + Healing Through Forgiveness
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Children’s Bereavement: Helping Our Youngest Survivors
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Reclaiming Breath, Reclaiming Life: A Somatic Healing Workshop for Suicide Loss Survivors
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CST
    Support Group: Professional Loss
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CST
    Keynote: Suicide Loss: Grief, Trauma, and Soul Exhaustion