Call for Abstracts
Meeting the Moment: Integrating Community, Arts, and Data Innovation to Advance Equity in Youth Suicide Prevention
July 7 - 9, 2026
Registration is completely free!
We invite abstracts for conference panels (e.g., roundtable or community dialogue), oral presentations (e.g., lessons from the field, showcase your work), student posters, and community spotlights (e.g., innovation in action, stories of change that focus on impact) that illustrate promising practices, research findings, artistic approaches, storytelling, or innovative collaborations. Submissions from community-based organizations, youth leaders, interdisciplinary teams, and researchers at all stages are encouraged.
Abstracts should be 250 words. Submissions can include original research and program implementation in community-based organizations aimed at reducing suicide risk among youth. Abstracts should describe the significance, impact, and findings (if applicable).
The abstract submission deadline is March 20, 2026 11:59 pm ET.
2026 Conference Details
Description:
Youth suicide prevention demands approaches that are as dynamic, diverse, and creative as the communities we serve. Meeting the Moment is a time designed to bridge community-based practice, artistic expression, and leading-edge research to advance equitable, culturally responsive solutions for youth mental health and suicide prevention.
This free conference (July 7 – 9, 2026) brings together community organizations, youth-serving professionals, educators, researchers, artists, policymakers, and young people to explore innovative strategies that center lived experience, cultural strengths, and real-world applicability to advance our understanding of youth suicide prevention. We aim to create a reflective, collaborative space where rigorous methods, meaningful data, artistic practice, and lived experience are brought into dialogue to strengthen equitable prevention for historically marginalized youth.
Participants will engage with sessions highlighting:
Community-driven programs supporting youth mental health and wellbeing
Arts-based and creative methods for prevention, healing, and engagement
Data innovation, including participatory methods, equitable analytics, and youth-centered evaluation
Partnership models that meaningfully connect academic research with on-the-ground practice
Strategies to address inequities in youth suicide prevention across cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic contexts
Place: New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Brooklyn, New York.
Format: Hybrid (In-person and virtual)
