Suicide Prevention Summit

The call for proposal online submission form will open soon!

Suicide Prevention Summit: September 17, 2025

• Deadline for keynote presentation submissions: January 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time
• Deadline for concurrent presentation submissions: Febraury 23, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time
• Notification emails will be sent on or before: March 23, 2025

Programs applicable to all aspects of suicide prevention are welcome. Keynote and concurrent sessions are 75 minutes in length. Accepted concurrent session proposal presenters will receive complimentary registration for the 2025 Suicide Prevention Summit.

All submissions must include: 

• Title of the presentation
• Abstract, consisting of 75 words maximum, describing the content of the presentation
• Presenter(s) information: name, position title, employer name, culminating degree, degree field or specialty area, full VITA
• Three learning objectives that begin with one of the following measurable verbs: list, describe, recite, write, compute, discuss, explain, predict, apply, demonstrate, prepare,
  use, analyze, design, select, utilize, compile, create, plan, revise, assess, compare, rate, critique.

Suggested topics:

• Building resiliency
• Cultural considerations with suicide
• Developmental considerations with suicidal idealization from childhood to late in life
• Managing chronic suicidal idealization
• Men and suicide
• Spiritual considerations with suicide
• Stigma and suicide
• Suicide in children
• Suicide in the college age population
• Suicide in the serious persistent mentally ill population
• Veterans and suicide