Upcoming Community Action

And Training Opportunities

The New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition, along with our wonderful partners and sponsors, are pleased to bring you these Regional Suicide Prevention trainings and Community Action/Coalition Building Meetings.  Below are the dates, flyers and schedules for our upcoming events.  The email sent out last week with the Santa Rosa information is being resent in this email because we had some wrong dates in the flyer and schedule.  Please accept our apologies for any confusion this may have caused.  Also, please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in attending these events especially anyone with a state government email address, as we have found that these emails are not getting through to those people at this time.

Santa Rosa:  June 4^th and 5^th

Baymont Inn and Suites

Las Cruces:  June 13^th and 14^th

Club Fusion

and the Branigan Library

Farmington:  June 21^st - 22^nd

Location to be announced

Schedule

June 4, 2007

8:00 - 9:00 am:  Registration/sign-in with continental breakfast

9:00 - 9:45 am:  Welcome, NM Suicide Prevention Coalition

NMSPC will lay some foundation regarding the need for Suicide Prevention in NM and especially in the Adult Suicide Population

10:00 - 11:30 am:  Office of Aging, Department of Health

Adult Suicide Prevention awareness and intervention

11:30 am - 12:45 pm:  Lunch break - on your own

1:00 - 2:00 pm:  NMSPC

How to help survivors of suicide; some of the issues faced by survivors; how to assist them through the grieving process and the importance of support groups.

2:00 - 2:15 pm:  Afternoon break-refreshments served

Welcome additional community members to join us for QPR and later Community Action Meeting.

2:15 - 3:45 pm QPR with Dr. Ley of NM Solutions. 

Question-Persuade-Refer:  This training teaches warning signs and ways to ask the question and then respond. This awareness training is meant for everyone. Everyone can be a gatekeeper and assist with solutions.

3:45 - 4:00pm:  Closing remarks for CEU training

Certificates available

Same day, 4 - 6 pm:  Community Action Meeting:

We will have a panel of key players from the community and if any of you can be present to answer specific questions we would appreciate it but understand if you are unable. I have invited the Mayor and local Representatives, and Local Behavioral Health Collaborative and Health Council members. Listen and share your thoughts and concerns about suicide issues in your community. Help direct some change and awareness.

June 5

10 am - 2 pm:  Community Action/Coalition Building Lunch

We will provide a lunch setting to gather together and help create some goals and actions for creating more suicide prevention and awareness in the area. Please come and help be part of creating positive solutions and supports for the area.