Grief Beyond Loss: Understanding and Navigating Grief in Young Adulthood
Apr
7

Grief Beyond Loss: Understanding and Navigating Grief in Young Adulthood

Grief is often misunderstood, especially in young adulthood—a time of transition, identity formation, and increasing responsibility. In this 90-minute presentation, Hilary Kinavey, LPC, will explore what grief is, how it shows up beyond death and loss, and why it is a deeply personal and collective experience. With developmentally relevant insights, she will discuss the unique ways grief manifests for college-aged students, including grief related to identity shifts, academic and life pressures, family changes, and the impact of suicidal loss.

This session will offer a compassionate framework for understanding grief, dispelling common myths, and providing practical strategies for navigating it with care. Whether students are experiencing personal loss, supporting a grieving friend, or simply seeking to better understand this universal human experience, this conversation will provide validation, language, and tools for honoring grief in themselves and others.

Presenter Bio: Hilary Kinavey, LPC, is a therapist, educator, and facilitator whose work centers on body liberation, grief, and sustainable practice. She is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust, co-author of Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation, and the creator of Tending: Accompaniment at the Gates of Grief, a community-centered grief offering. With over two decades of experience, Hilary holds space for the personal, cultural, and professional losses that shape our lives. Her approach acknowledges grief as a natural, nonlinear process—one that deserves time, care, and community.

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Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference (OSPC)
Apr
28
to Apr 30

Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference (OSPC)

The goal of the 2025 Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference (OSPC) is to foster an inclusive, multidisciplinary dialogue that advances understanding, prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies for suicide and suicidal behaviors. The conference theme for 2025 is Communities of Hope: Fostering Connection.

This conference welcomes peers, professionals, non-professionals, and individuals with lived experience. Attendees will have meaningful opportunities to connect, exchange insights, and enhance their suicide prevention efforts. Together, we can build stronger, more supportive communities that foster mental wellness and work collectively to prevent suicide.

Attendees gain practical skills, and access actionable plans to foster collaboration, celebrate diversity, uplift voices of lived experience, and implement evidence-based practices and prevention strategies. Together, we can strengthen connections that better support communities and help individuals find meaning and purpose in their lives.

We prioritize workforce wellness and professional growth, offering opportunities to participate in affinity groups and self-care wellness activities. Reconnect with old friends, forge new relationships, and engage with exhibitors to explore innovative programs, trainings, and resources for suicide prevention and mental wellness promotion.

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Nov
6
to Nov 8
Sponsored Event

Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference

Hope Across the Lifespan: Care in Action

Lines for Life, alongside Oregon Health Authority and our community partners, invite you to this year’s Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference – Hope Across the Lifespan: Care in Action. OSPC 2023 focuses on creative and effective improvements to the field of suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention for all stages of life.

OCUSPP is sponsoring this year’s conference and has 3 proposals specific to post-secondary and higher education settings.

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Crisis Supports & Suicide Prevention for the Autism Community
Sep
11
Training

Crisis Supports & Suicide Prevention for the Autism Community

Lisa Morgan, MEd, CAS is an author, advocate, and consultant in crisis support and suicide prevention for autistic people. She founded and co-chairs the Autism and Suicide Workgroup, which has developed three autism specific resources. Lisa is a certified autism specialist, Life Coach, and owner of Lisa Morgan Consulting, LLC. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work degree.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss unique risk factors and warning signs of suicide for autistic people

  • Explain cultural competence and unintentional harm

  • Determine practical applications for supporting autistic people

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Suicide Risk Assessment and Safety Planning
Sep
16
Training

Suicide Risk Assessment and Safety Planning

OCUSPP and Penn Center for Prevention of Suicide partner for the 2020 OCUSPP Summer training.

Join Dr. Kelly Green and Dr. Barbara Stanley for presentations on suicide risk assessment and safety planning. This presentation will have a focus for college counseling center clinicians and will incorporate the context of teletherapy.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 on Zoom

9:00am -10:00am for Suicide Risk Assessment, which would include how to ask questions about suicide and suicidal thinking, dispelling myths around suicide, and how to do risk assessment with young adults and adults.

10:00am -12:00pm for the Safety Planning Intervention which would include an overview of how to conduct the intervention and some demo role-play (for age 18+).

Learn more about the Penn Center for the Prevention of Suicide here.

Register for this event here.

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Thomas Joiner, PhD
Jun
27
Training

Thomas Joiner, PhD

OCUSPP is very excited to host Thomas Joiner, PhD, a leading expert on suicide. The training will take place on Thursday, June 27 at Portland State University and provide 5 CEs.

What You Will Learn:
In his theory of suicidal behavior, Dr. Thomas Joiner proposes three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and the learned ability to hurt oneself. He tests the theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology— and facts about suicide rates among diverse groups.

This training includes seven learning objectives to increase participants knowledge of:

  • Approaches to suicide risk assessment

  • Developments in the treatment of suicidal behavior

  • Epidemiology and risk factors for death by suicide

  • New theory of suicidal behavior

  • Anecdotal, clinical, and scientific evidence that evaluates theory of suicidal behavior

  • Developments in suicide prevention

  • Understand the experience of people who are bereaved by suicide

For more information or to register, click here.

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