Host: Horace Mann Insurance
Event: Suicide Prevention Month Presentation
Presentation: The Emotionally Naked® Truth About Suicide: Raising Awareness in the Workplace
Location: Virtual Teams Webinar, Horace Mann
Audience: Allyship ERG
Program Details
AnneMoss Rogers will provide virtual mental health education around the topic of suicide prevention for one hour with anonymous Q&A.
Title: The Emotionally Naked® Truth About Suicide: Raising Awareness in the Workplace
After trying to find help for her once joyful son and rap artist, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, AnneMoss’s son Charles became addicted to heroin while struggling with depression and he died by suicide in 2015.
Eighty percent of those who die by suicide are of working age, so the workplace is an ideal place for creating a system for prevention and intervention. If your workforce includes parents, it’s likely many of them have children who are struggling, they are seeking answers and resources. 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)
• Creating a suicide-safe environment (aka. means safety)
• Life events that can increase suicide risk
Themes include mental illness, addiction/substance misuse, coping skills, hope, and healing. AnneMoss follows safe messaging reporting guidelines on suicide.