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Host: Encompass Community Supports
Theme: Stamping Out Suicide (S.O.S.)
Location: Laurel Ridge Community College (Fauquier campus) M6J9+H6, 6480 College St, Warrenton, VA 20187
Audience: Nonprofit leaders and exhibitors, finance and administration employees, health and mental health workers, community
Program Details
AnneMoss Rogers will provide an in-person keynote presentation for approximately one-half hour and a breakout for an hour.
Mental Health Keynote: Turning Pain into Purpose
After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, AnneMoss Rogers’ son, Charles became addicted to heroin and died by suicide on June 5, 2015. This presentation is about her journey to healing by dragging an unpopular topic into the spotlight, how giving back has helped her heal, and how a blog community that came together in their shared pain has saved lives in the most surprising and unconventional of ways. This presentation carries a message of hope and genuine takeaways on how to spot and respond to someone in crisis.
Takeaways:
• How stigma played a role in Charles’s downward spiral
• One mom’s unconventional way to save lives
• Turning grief into action to find a path to healing
• What to say or do when someone is struggling
• Forgiving oneself after a loss by suicide
AnneMoss follows safe messaging reporting guidelines on suicide.
Breakout Session: The Emotionally Naked Truth About Suicide (One hour, ~12-50 attendees)
The Emotionally Naked Truth About Suicide
AnneMoss Rogers, has built a following on the subject of suicide, and the mental health conditions and underlying risk factors that often trigger it. After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, Charles met heroin while struggling with depression and he died by suicide in 2015.
This presentation dispels common myths about suicide and substance misuse, while delivering a message of hope, and empowering regular humans with the skills to help prevent this threat to life.
Takeaways:
• How to recognize the cryptic ways people cry for help
• How to respond, what to say/do (includes talking points and script practice)
• Creating a suicide-safe environment (aka. means safety)
• Life events that can increase suicide risk
• Resources
Thank you for working to bring awareness to suicide. I am curious where the slogan “Stamp Out Suicide” originated? Suicide is a much broader and layered mental health issue that is just not “stamped out” One can stamp out a fire, a cigarette or a bug- it seems that one does not stamp out suicide. Who is doing the stamping? If we are learning about suicide that doesn’t make it go away as stamping would imply. So I am curious why this slogan?
My first response was wrong because I thought it was a different event. This is what they are calling their event this year. Honestly if they get as many to the event as they have been able to do, I don’t much care what they call it but that they take away the messages I will highlight at the event.