Debra Darmata works with the Oregon Health Authority -- Zero Suicide Program and has been working with the OCA to bring us programs on Suicide intervention and prevention, as it pertains to you as a health care provider.  She will be helping you learn to recognize the signs and symptoms that is necessary for the prevention.   This course will give you required CE for suicide intervention & prevention that is now needed annual for  your DC license renewals.    

Debra Darmata is the Adult Suicide Prevention Coordinator at Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and facilitated the development of the first Oregon Adult Suicide Intervention and Prevention Plan.

Prior to that she served as the Washington County Suicide Prevention Coordinator for over two years. She spent 11 years as the Operations Manager for the Student Wellness Alcohol Prevention Program at New Mexico State University where suicide prevention was a major component of her job duties, and she coordinated the development and management of a warm line.

Ms. Darmata was the Director of Rehabilitative Services for the state hospital in New Mexico.   She is a trainer for ASIST and QPR. She
earned her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Roosevelt University - Chicago and spent years treating eating disorders and sexual trauma.