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Suicide Prevention: A Call to Action
September 29, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FreeZoom Link: https://otc.zoom.us/j/92867206439
Session description:
The 2021 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to fully implement the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention recognizes suicide as a major public health issue and calls for a national response. Going forward, suicide prevention efforts must engage all sectors, including public health, mental health, health care, social services, service members, veterans, and their families, business, entertainment, media, faith communities, and education. These efforts must be informed by data, guided by the needs of the groups affected, and shaped by the voices of people who have lived experience such as, suicide loss, suicide attempt and other non-fatal suicidal experiences.
This session will inform and engage participants to have a conversation about suicide within their own communities.
Personal bio:
Jacque Christmas has worked for the Missouri Department of Mental Health for twenty-eight years and has served as the Fatality Review Coordinator since 2008. In 2012, Jacque lost her 27-year-old drug addicted son. Jacque combines her experience as the Fatality Review Coordinator and that of a bereaved mother to support and educate others impacted by suicide and other special circumstance deaths. Jacque is a certified Question, Persuade, and Refer Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Instructor and facilitates a Re-Energize and Re-Connect Emotional Wellness Workshop series for suicide attempt and suicide loss survivors in Joplin, Missouri. She is a certified Mental Health Recovery and Wellness Recovery Action Planning® Facilitator and uses WRAP® in her own mental health recovery and wellness. Jacque is a member of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and serves on the Impacted Family and Friends Division, Nominating Committee and Awards Committee. Jacque was appointed Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Suicidology in August, 2021. Jacque also joined the advisory panel for Johnny’s Ambassadors in 2020, a not-for-profit focused on educating parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development and suicide. In July, 2022, Jacque received the Missouri Lifetime Achievement Award for Suicide Prevention.
