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  • 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