In this 90-minute webinar, participants will learn more about suicide prevention efforts as it relates to elite athletes and those in high-performance roles. The session will highlight the unique risk and protective factors for those in high-performance positions. In addition, this webinar will briefly identify therapeutic approaches effective in the management and treatment of individuals at risk for suicide.

Know the Signs is a statewide suicide prevention social marketing campaign built on three key messages: Know the signs. Find the words. Reach out. This campaign is intended to educate community members on recognizing the warning signs of suicide, finding the words to have a direct conversation with someone in crisis, and finding professional help and resources.

Takeaways from the Pandemic: How to Restore Balance and Foster Resilience in Your Family - presented on 5/27/21 This presentation will address how the pandemic has impacted mental health and how coping skills and stress management affect resilience.

This is a quick intro to mental health and being prepared to have meaningful conversations for the Junior class at Caldwell High School.

One hour of your time can mean a lifetime for another. This service opportunity is a 60-minute on-demand, online QPR gatekeeper training. By educating yourself, you'll be better able to serve others.

Understanding why a person kills him or herself seems essential to preventing suicide, but the causes of suicide are as unique as individuals. Misconceptions include that a person chooses suicide out of weakness and selfishness with a well-thought out plan.

Who needs a pick-me-up? WE DO!!!

We missed live music. We missed our friends and family. We wanted to see our crew and have desperately missed our 2020 live events. So, as Covid-19 rates increase and physical distancing is crucial, we all need to connect and share joy remotely. We were thrilled to have Jeff Crosby and Darci Carlson share their musical talents.

This year’s World Mental Health Day, on October 10th, comes at a time when our daily lives have changed considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join us for Coffee Talk - an informational series to dive into topics of mental health, suicide prevention, and resilience as the world navigates the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hope for Idaho is a multi-media storytelling class at the College of Western Idaho. Our goal is to bring hope to the hopeless and hurting, relief and comfort to those who need it, and to save a life by preventing suicide. To this end, we are working, together as a class to create with audio, video, and words both spoken and written the means to achieve this goal.

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee today formally announced the formation and membership of an external Mental Health Taskforce to support Team USA athletes – and the coaches, officials and administrators who serve them – address mental health concerns and promote sustained and holistic well-being throughout their complete athlete journey.

Two girls packed their bags and traveled across America in a mini-van with their mothers to interview hundreds of females about the “mean girl” phenomenon.

The Speedy Foundation is reaching out to implore you to #advocate. We reach out while sitting in yet another Senate Health and Welfare hearing regarding the partial repeal of Medicaid expansion, which ignores the will of the voters and will create an expensive secondary coverage gap.

Shannon Decker is the Executive Director of the Speedy Foundation and the Idaho Suicide Prevention Coalition. The Speedy Foundation was started in 2011 in memory of Shannon’s cousin, Olympic Freestyle skier and three time Olympian, Jeret Peterson. Jeret died a year after the Vancouver Olympics in which he had taken home a silver medal for USA.

AAS is happy to announce the release of Social Media & Suicide Tipsheet. Please share with parents & adults who are concerned by all the recent news about Instagram, Facebook, & YouTube. 

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As many of you know, Idaho is 4th in the nation for suicides per capita, and our legislative district is first in the state. Idaho has been spending more than a million dollars a year working at this problem.

Hannah Lucas was inspired to create an app-based “panic button” in the moment she needed one the most: after a suicide attempt during a difficult battle with depression in her freshman year of high school in Atlanta. Within a year, she and her brother Charlie had created the app notOK, which allows users to instantly alert five trusted contacts at the onset of a mental health crisis.

BOISE — A full dozen Idaho House members spoke out in favor of covering first responders’ post-traumatic stress under workers’ compensation on Thursday, as the House passed the bill 59-10 and sent it to the governor’s desk.

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett , California Health Report

Noting rising suicide rates and mental health problems among the state’s youth, a bill in the California Senate would require all new teachers to have mental health first-aid training.

State Senators Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) and Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena) introduced the bill earlier this month with the support of county health officials, mental health program providers and child health advocates. Senate bill 428 would require all new teachers, as well as those renewing their teaching credentials, to complete a course on youth mental health first-aid.

If approved, the requirement would go into effect in January 2020.

Legislative budget writers on Wednesday approved a $200,000 increase in funding for state suicide prevention efforts next year, rather than the $1 million boost the state Department of Health & Welfare requested and Gov. Brad Little recommended.