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9:30 am-11 am OK Time. 30 minutes for Q&A

Mental Health Keynote Speaker Topic: 

Turning Pain into Purpose: How to find healing through helping

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
• What one mom wished she knew to help support her child
• What to say or do when someone is struggling
• Forgiving oneself after a loss by suicide

AnneMoss follows safe messaging reporting guidelines on suicide.

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