Local groups partner to host June 27 event: Everyone Plays a Role in Suicide Prevention: Turning Strategy into Action

Thursday, June 27, 2013, at the Community Health Facility, 200 Maine, Lawrence, Kansas

Everyone Plays a Role in Suicide Prevention: Turning Strategy into Action

The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Headquarters Counseling Center, and Kansas Youth Suicide Prevention invite you to join in this important local, state, and national discussion.

Awareness + Tools = Change

You will leave with information about what YOU can do, because “Everyone Plays A Role In Suicide Prevention.”

8:30am Sign-in

8:45am Welcome

9:00 – 11:00am Health & Human Services’ National Webcast from Chicago LEARN about the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, available tools, resources, and the ultimate goal of eliminating the tragic experience of suicide HEAR FROM: ~ Surgeon General VADM Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A. ~ Richard McKeon, Director, SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Branch ~ Jerry Reed, Director, Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) ~ Dan Reidenberg, Executive Director, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) ~ Representatives of these high-risk groups: Veterans, American Indians, LGBTQ

11:15am – 12:30pm Discussion ~ What we each can do to prevent suicide ~ Kansas Youth Suicide Prevention, Headquarters Counseling & our National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Service ~ Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center ~ Additional local supports

12:30 – 12:45pm “tool packets” available.

To register for our Lawrence event: http://www.blsmeetings.net/EveryonePlaysARole/index.cfm?action=findEvent

Drop-in registrants are most welcome!

For those in other areas wishing to host an event, register to participate at an event or to view the national broadcast from one’s own computer: http://www.blsmeetings.net/EveryonePlaysARole/

To learn more about our National Strategy For Suicide Prevention: http://actionallianceforsuicideprevention.org/NSSP.