September 28-30, 2026
This free, three-day training will offer an in-depth exploration of suicide using SHARES on Suicide, a relationship-centered framework for understanding and responding to people who are struggling with suicidal thoughts. The framework reflects a lived-experience-informed, harm reduction approach to suicide.
This interactive training will ask participants to reflect on what they bring to the conversation and what it means to say that suicide is a social justice issue, and then learn what to do with that. Topics will include:
- What harm reduction looks like in the context of suicide
- Understanding the relationship between self-injury and suicide
- What the research tells us about what really works
- The role of power (and loss of power) in living or dying
- Strategies for supporting one another without relying on carceral systems
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to explain what the SHARES acronym stands for and what each piece means.
- Participants will be able to identify at least three strategies for sharing power when supporting someone who is suicidal.
- Participants will be able to identify at least three ways in which current conventional clinical wisdom may be counterproductive to supporting people who are suicidal.
Dates:
- September 28: 9am to 11am
- September 29: 9am to 5pm
- September 30: 9am to 5pm
Email pathways@pitt.edu to register.
Hosted by the PATHlab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, where Institute for Bioethics Associate Faculty member Nev Jones, PhD serves as principal investigator and Master of Arts in Bioethics student Lauren Fowler serves as research coordinator.
Location and Address
In-person in Room 2017, Cathedral of Learning