Free on-line discussion board will hyperlink suicide loss survivors and leaders inside the suicidology group
— Anthony Wood, AAS’s Interim Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, September 29, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — One particular person each 11.1 minutes. On common in 2019, a life was misplaced to suicide each 11.1 minutes, in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ripple results of these losses are heartbreakingly monumental, with roughly 7 million individuals instantly impacted by suicide yearly. The American Association of Suicidology is striving to make a optimistic distinction in the lives of survivors by its Healing After Suicide Loss Summit on October 1.
Healing Through Action: A Tapestry of Loss Survivors’ Voices summit is a digital gathering of Suicide Loss Survivors and Leaders inside the suicidology group. As Anthony Wood, AAS’s Interim Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, explains: “These leaders are the very people who share in the painful lived-experienced of suicide loss, grief, and bereavement. The American Association of Suicidology recognizes the importance of community and welcomes all affected by suicide loss.”
Presenters embody: Annemarie Matulis, co-founder of A Voice at the Table; Jacque Christmas, MPA, BSW, who misplaced her grownup son to suicide; Toy Burton, survivor and Founder and Executive Director of DeeDee’s Cry Suicide Prevention and Family Support; Dr. Pata Suyemoto, AAS Board of Directors and Training Director for the National Asian American Mental Health Association; Tracy Oeser, MS.Psych, founder and CEO of Journey Thru Grief; Steve Boczenowski, whio co-founded Teenage Anxiety and Depression Solutions after the loss of his son; Nina and Judy Albelo, co-founders of Breaking the Barriers (AKA Tony’s Tribe); Phil Tyler, Air Force Veteran, Former Vice President and President of Spokane NAACP, CPTED specialist and Certified Comfort coach; Steven Palm, founder of The Kacie Palm Project for Youth Suicide Prevention; and Andrea Kalin & Hallie Twomey, who created the Scattering CJ Documentary. All the audio system share a ardour for those that have suffered loss. As Toy Burton notes, “We can longer hear the cries of others and do nothing.”
The annual summit seeks to honor this collective by a livestream occasion that gives a platform for loss survivors. Presenters will weave collectively a spread of voices with the intention of creating a various and inclusive tapestry of hope and resilience. Virtual attendees will stroll away with actions and methods that will inform and incorporate into their very own therapeutic or inside their very own communities and households.
“Healing after suicide loss is not a one-size-fits all endeavor, and our summit will reflect this reality. We welcome loss survivors, caring contacts, support group facilitators, mental health professionals, and more for this hopeful and healing informative event,” Wood notes.
The free webinar is open to all. It shall be Saturday, October, Noon to 5pm EST. Register at: https://bit.ly/3wjx2RG
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About American Association of Suicidology
The American Association of Suicidology is the world’s largest membership-based suicide prevention group. Founded in 1968 by Edwin S. Shneidman, PhD, AAS promotes the analysis of suicide and its prevention, public consciousness packages, public schooling and coaching for professionals and volunteers. The membership of AAS contains psychological well being and public well being professionals, researchers, suicide prevention and disaster intervention facilities, college districts, disaster middle professionals, survivors of suicide loss, try survivors, and a spread of laypersons who’ve in curiosity in suicide prevention. You can study extra about AAS at www.suicidology.org.
Responsible reporting on suicide, together with tales of hope and resilience, can forestall extra suicides. Please go to the Media as Partners in Suicide Prevention: Suicide Reporting Recommendations for extra particulars. For further data, please go to SuicideReportingToolkit.com and Stanford University’s Media and Mental Health Initiative. For disaster companies anyplace in the world, please go to FindAHelpline.org.
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