Thank you so so much for your interest in this research project and how its findings apply to suicide and crisis intervention!
On this page, you can access the slides and all reference material mentioned/QR-coded.
Feel free to reach out for any questions, thoughts, and/or concerns: [email protected]
Have a great (rest of the) conference and enjoy processing everything you’ll have taken back from the week!
Benni
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