The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is sponsoring a webinar May 21, 2009, 2 p.m. (Eastern), to help shed light on the rising trend of suicides among Latina teens. The webinar, led by Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., director of the Center for Latino Family Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the high rate of suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas in the United States. 

Webinar participants will learn:

• the epidemiology and research on suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas in comparison to other ethnic and racial youth.
• about the multiple factors (individual psychology, family, social, culture, gender) that come together in Latina teenagers’ suicide attempts and examine preventive interventions that can be undertaken in schools and the importance of family-centered interventions.

This webinar is sponsored by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

About the Presenter

Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., is the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Latino Family Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work of Washington University in St. Louis. He is also professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. A native of Coamo, Puerto Rico, Zayas received his bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College, and a master’s in social work, and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University.