TSPN September 2020 Newsletter

Statewide event recap Regional & partner award winner recognition Regional SPA Month event & regional meeting info Status of Suicide & regional directory update Donor recognition Tile of the Month

Statewide Event Recap We at TSPN are so grateful for all those who were able to participate in our statewide event on September 9. The event was full of connection and celebration, despite being held online, and we certainly felt the love from all our friends, advocates, and community partners who were able to join us.

Huge thank you to our event sponsors, United Healthcare Community Plan and Camelot Care Centers. If you missed the event and are interested in checking it out, you can watch it here!

Regional & Partner Award Winners Congratulations to our 2020 winners!

NORTHWEST REGION Emily Bolin

SHELBY COUNTY/MEMPHIS REGION Jason McCown

SOUTHWEST REGION Megan Gaylord

SOUTH CENTRAL REGION Molly Barnes and LIFT

MID-CUMBERLAND REGION Maria Smith

UPPER CUMBERLAND REGION Power or Putnam

SOUTHEAST REGION Christy Sentell

EAST REGION Nancy McGlasson

NORTHEAST REGION Drew Turner

COMMUNITY PARTNER AWARD Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth

INTRASTATE DEPARTMENTAL GROUP Assistant Commissioner Carol McDonald, Dept of Agriculture

MEDIA PARTNER StoneCom of Cookeville

A special congrats goes out to our 2020 Madge and Ken Tullis, MD Suicide Prevention Award Winner Nancy McGlasson. Nancy is an accomplished writer and has been a dedicated volunteer, organizer, facilitator and speaker with TSPN for nearly a decade. You can read more about Nancy in her latest published essay linked here. We are so thankful for Nancy and her advocacy! 

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month is far from over! We still have several regional events and meetings going on throughout the state in the next few weeks.

Be sure to also check out past September 2020 events on our homepage at tspn.org! Upcoming regional meetings Northeast region: September 24 Upper Cumberland region: September 24 

Status of Suicide and Regional Directories We are excited to announce that the 2020 Status of Suicide Report is off to the printers and a virtual version of the report will be online very soon! We have also updated all nine resource directories for each region across the state! These new and improved directories, as well as many other TSPN materials, can be shipped through the TAADAS Clearinghouse at no cost to you or your organization. Visit our website to place an order today!

Donor Recognition We would like to recognize the following donors and sponsors for their generous contributions toward suicide prevention in Tennessee:

Organizations TriStar Carey Counseling Center, Inc. Northwest TCCY Henry County Sheriff's Department Unity Psychiatric Care Insight Investigations Loan Depot Mental Health America of the MidSouth East TCCY Spark Media, Inc. Amerigroup Johnson City Seniors' Center Freed-Hardeman University Miltary Officers Association of America Memphis Military Officers Association Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of Jackson Youth Villages Lauderdale County Schools Beacon Capital Management

Individuals Ken Tartar Walter Scott Kathleen Rogers Virginia Kopp Amber Doolittle Doug Kinnard Jim Wampler Paul Augustyniak Brenda Hodges Wanda & Billy Kinslow Joseph Park Kevin & Patricia Jarvis Nancy McGlasson Elvin & Marianne Woodroof Stephanie Craft John Glass Autumn Phillips Brooke Thompson Dave Deepa Angie Simones Lynn Gray

International Wall of Suicide: Tile of the Month, Taya Bruell

Taya Bruell (Colorado), remembered by her parents, Harry and Jennifer Bruell   Taya was brilliant, talented, charismatic, beautiful, imaginative, creative, and fun. She loved to write and wanted to either be a surgeon, a writer or both. She battled bravely against the Borderline Personality Disorder that slowly consumed her brain and ultimately led to her tragic death.

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