As recent studies have indicated, suicide rates were already on the rise, but the COVID pandemic has intensified the issue. The past year and a half have brought uncertainty, loss of peer interactions and social isolation, creating increased mental health issues & suicide risks in teens and children.
We know you have been swimming upstream with the pandemic along with child and adolescent mental health for the past 18 months. As a pediatrician, parent, friend —we all play a critical role in helping each other, particularly when we are in crisis. This year’s Ohio AAP Annual Meeting Keynote, Stories from a Year Lost: School-Age Children in Crisis and How Ohio AAP Can Help will support the Store It Safe (SIS) Teen Suicide Prevention Program and new initiatives to promote mental resilience. Ohio AAP has assembled a multi-disciplinary panel of medical and lived experience experts, including teens, to discuss how we can get our children back to a healthier mental state after the pandemic. Attendees will leave with proven, quick, and easy tools and techniques to use with children and adolescents in mental health crisis.
Register to attend by visiting: http://oldsite.ohioaap.org/sis21
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