Small Steps, Big Impact, A Podcast About Suicide | Suicide Response & Resource Network

So when we think about the programming that we offer, our mission is to prevent suicide through education, advocacy, connection to resources, and then we support and care for people impacted by suicide.

So your role in the organization is what? I coordinate all of your training.

All of

our

training.

But you are our beautiful facilitator of those trainings.

We have different programming levels.

So we have awareness trainings that are can be tailored to anybody from young teens to adults.

And then we have our two trainings through living works, which is evidence based.

trainings that are called Safe Talk and Assist.

Safe Talk is a half a day training and Assist is a two full day training.

But they are wonderful programs and I've learned so much from taking them myself.

And I love coordinating them for us to go out into our community and spread the suicide prevention efforts that we do have.

So your role at our network is to really focus on educating our community, offering us a lot of CEUs, right? What else do you do with our programs?

I like to say I wear multiple hats.

As

we all do in nonprofits, right? Yes.

I mean, I can't even begin to start what I do for our network, and I feel that I represent us at resource tables, and I go into the community and educate through prevention there.

I also coordinate when you're going to speak outside of our trainings to other groups of people, whether that be organizations or foundations that want to bring you in.

But outside of that, I'm just your every woman, aren't

I?

Yes.

Executive assistant is your other hat, right? Yes.

Yeah.

So when we think about trainings, how do we get people to engage in that? Like, how do we get people their willingness to take the training and to take the time? Because I do believe that for most of us, until you're impacted by suicide, it's almost like I don't need to learn that.