Audience: School mental health professionals such as school counselors, school psychologists, educators, clinicians
Topic Description:
This presentation includes AnneMoss’ practical steps on managing the pain of suicide loss facilitated by a mother who lost a son and others to suicide. There will also be case studies and video of how educators have managed grief from suicide while also fostering community healing. AnneMoss has co-facilitated a suicide loss grief group for the last 5 years and runs workshops on healing after loss.
Takeaways:
- What to say and how to support students and faculty after a suicide loss
- Protocol of what to say to a family who has suffered a suicide loss (Downloadable script included)
- How to support a grieving child returning to school after a family suicide loss (Case Study)
- Case studies/video on how school mental health professionals have coped personally and professionally with a suicide loss
- Turning grief into action to find a path to healing
- A strategy for the “coulda woulda shouldas” and self-blame
AnneMoss follows safe messaging reporting guidelines on suicide.
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About AnneMoss Rogers, speaker on mental health
AnneMoss Rogers is a mental health and suicide prevention speaker, trainer, and consultant. After her 20-year-old son, Charles died by suicide in 2015, AnneMoss wrote her award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and in 2020, she co-wrote the best seller, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk with Dr. Kimberly O’Brien.
She has been a TEDx speaker, was featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and was the first non-clinician invited to speak on youth suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health. She is one of the editors of Suicide: Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna, Anne Moss currently lives in Richmond, VA.
Certifications and Training
- Registered safeTALK trainer for LivingWorks (certified prevention trainer)
- ASIST Trained–Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a 2-day interactive workshop
- ASK Workshop Trained: Training focused on identifying, assessing, and helping 5-12 -year-olds at risk for suicide find hope for life.
- Youth Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health First Aid
- Preventure: Personality-targeted life skills training that has been shown to reduce youth substance misuse.
- Brain Gym Neurocognitive Training for Addiction: with Hamed Ekhtiari, M.D., Ph.D.
- Bereavement Support Group Facilitator Training (Co-facilitator of suicide loss group)
- DBT Steps-A in Schools- SEL curriculum based on DBT and mindfulness.
- HC Peer Trained –Healing Conversations Survivor Outreach Program through the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention
- REVIVE! Training– Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Education training
- Trauma-Informed Care Basics
- Anne Moss follows safe messaging and reporting guidelines on suicide
- At least 15+ hours or more of ongoing training per calendar year