Mental Health Keynote Speaker for the 2023 Virtual Summit National Summit on School Safety
AnneMoss Rogers’s mental health keynote speakers address was filmed on a stage in Nashville, TN, and will air in October 2023.
Mental Health Keynote Speaker topic title:
Turning Pain into Purpose: Surviving a Son’s Depression, Addiction and Death by Suicide
Description: AnneMoss Rogers, has built a following on suicide education, and the mental illnesses and addiction that often trigger it. After trying to find help for her once joyful son and creative genius, including wilderness therapy and therapeutic boarding school, Charles met heroin which ultimately led to his tragic death 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 her unconventional way of saving lives. Woven within the stories is education on mental health and suicide including the most important step for helping someone in crisis.
Takeaways:
- How stigma played a role in Charles’s downward spiral
- One mom’s unconventional way to save lives
- The most critical step to reducing suicide risk
- How to spot someone who is depressed or suicidal and what to say/do
- How one mom found hope and turned grief into action to find healing