January 2024 Call to Action

The January newsletter of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN)

TSPN Highlight

In the last three months of the 2023 calendar year, TSPN staff and volunteers, in partnership, trained nearly 4,000 individuals across Tennessee in various suicide prevention gatekeeper modalities and provided outreach to 18,000 Tennesseans.

Are you or your agency interested in taking a suicide prevention training? See more information below, or contact your TSPN Regional Director.

In this Issue

We recruit agencies to join us in implementing Zero Suicide,

promote a new suicide prevention call to action, and

offer remembrance through our International Suicide Memorial Wall.

More information on the Zero Suicide Initiative in Tennessee

Call to action

Our call to action is one way to encourage and engage

all members of our community in suicide prevention efforts

As we continue efforts to implement Zero Suicide (ZS) across health and behavioral health agencies throughout Tennessee, we want to hear from you. Has your agency implemented any part of ZS, or are you interested in learning more about the program?

To participate in our current call to action, please respond to this brief Zero Suicide survey to help us track our progress.

If you are an interested

organization or affiliate looking for more information about Sources of Strength, including eligibility requirements, please contact our Youth Programs Director, Kearee Jackson, at kjackson@tspn.org

Signing up for ESSENCE alerts takes less than a minute and can be done here: https://tspn.org/essence

Questions about ESSENCE? Contact our ESSENCE Director, Shauna Greer, at sgreer@tspn.org

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We are Recruiting for the Following Positions

Southeast Regional Director

East Regional Director

If you are interested in either position, or may know of someone fitting the job description, please contact us by clicking the button below for more information.

Please remember to include the position title in your email header.

We would like to recognize our donors & sponsors for their generous contributions toward suicide prevention in Tennessee

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Your financial support helps us with our work to raise awareness and prevent suicide in Tennessee.

Learn more about your options for giving to TSPN.

International Suicide Memorial Wall

In memory of those we lost too soon to suicide, and in recognition that suicide devastates families and communities globally, TSPN houses the International Suicide Memorial Wall.

As of early 2024, there are over 850 photos on the wall from across Tennessee, the United States, and the world.

If you would like to have a memorial tile placed on the wall in memory of your family member who died by suicide, please visit the International Suicide Memorial Wall page on our website for details. There is a small fee of $5.00 to cover productions costs of each wall tile.

If you have any questions, send them to Karyl at karylofcolumbia@cs.com

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