Guns and Suicide: The Clinician’s Role

Presented by:
Alicia Bickoff, Esq., CHANA
Amanda Ganoe, MSW, Grassroots Crisis Intervention
Eileen Zeller, MPH, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Maryland Governor’s Commission on Suicide
Prevention

Reducing access to lethal means — especially firearms — can determine whether someone at risk for suicide
lives or dies.
This training will enhance participants’ ability to:
• Identify people who could benefit from lethal means counseling
• Ask individuals receiving counseling about access to lethal means
• Work with individuals and their families to reduce access to lethal means
• Utilize Maryland’s Extreme Risk Protective Order (ERPO) law

Social workers and other clinicians attending this program will receive 2.0 Category I CEUs