AnneMoss Rogers’ Bio and Press Kit
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AnneMoss is a motivational keynote speaker who captures hearts, restores hope, and helps audiences turn pain into resilience.
As one of the most relatable mental health speakers and suicide prevention keynote speakers, AnneMoss transforms the tragedy of her son Charles' addiction and death by suicide into a powerful message of resilience and post-traumatic growth. Far from a story of despair, she focuses on the human capacity to grow through what we go through.
In 2019, AnneMoss published her award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind. In 2020, she co-wrote the bestseller Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide with Dr. Kimberly O’Brien, which has been translated into three languages.
A TEDx speaker, AnneMoss has been featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and interviewed by CNN’s Erin Burnett on teen mental health at the prestigious Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. She was the first non-clinician invited to speak on suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health and is one of the editors of the American Academy of Pediatrics Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention.
AnneMoss is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and lives in Richmond, Virginia.
The 100 Words Bio
AnneMoss Rogers is a TEDx speaker and an award-winning author from Richmond, Virginia. In 2015, the tragic suicide of her son, Charles, was a turning point in her life. As an emotionally naked mental health speaker, she transforms this personal experience into actionable insights to help others build emotional muscle, cultivate a foundation of wellness that saves lives.
She is an expert educator on mental health and wellness with a niche focus on suicide prevention and speaks at conferences, universities, schools, and workplaces to capture hearts and fill them with hope.
The Under 50 Words Bio
AnneMoss Rogers is a TEDx speaker, mental health and suicide education expert, suicide loss survivor, and award-winning author. She speaks virtually and at conferences, universities, schools, and workplaces to build a foundation of wellness but most of all to fill hearts with hope and save lives.
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AnneMoss’s Mental Health Training & Qualifications
AnneMoss isn’t just a parent who lost a child to suicide and decided she was automatically qualified to be an expert speaker on mental health and suicide prevention. She continuously pursues education and training and follows reporting guidelines on these sensitive topics.
- Former registered safeTALK suicide prevention trainer- #n42749, 7 years
- ASIST Trained: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
- ASK Trained: Focused on identifying, assessing & helping 5-12-year-olds at risk for suicide
- Psychological First Aid Training (PFA)
- CAMS-care Training, Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality, a gold standard therapeutic model w/ Dr. Raymond Tucker
- Certified in CALM Clinical (Counseling on Access to Lethal Means), an evidence-based intervention that reduces access to lethal means during a suicide crisis.
- Preventure: Personality-targeted life skills training for youth shown to reduce drug/alcohol use in schools
- Certified in Crisis Response Planning (CRP), an evidence-based suicide prevention intervention originally developed to support military personnel and veterans during periods of crisis.
- Trauma-Informed Care Training
- Mental Health First Aid: 8-hour training, Youth and Adults, YMFA and MHFA
- Trained in Neurocognitive Empowerment for Addiction Treatment (NEAT), Hamed Ekhtiari MD, PhD, an intervention targeting attention, memory, executive functioning, & decision-making to support addiction recovery
- Bereavement Support Group Facilitator training (Facilitated a Grief Group since 2018)
- DBT Steps-A in Schools: SEL curriculum based on DBT and mindfulness
- SOP Peer Trained: Survivor Outreach Program, AFSP
- REVIVE! Training: Emergency administration of Narcan® for opioid overdose
- Military Connected Prevention & Wellness Program- Focuses on the challenges of military veterans & their families.
- Emerging drug trends training, including those sold legally in smoke shops (several times per year)
- Connect Suicide Postvention Training. Designated a National Best Practice Program.
So glad I forced myself out in the rain to hear Anne Moss at Millwood School. I am touched by her story and grateful for the conversation she’s encouraging families to have with their kids about depression, anxiety, and suicide. For those who missed it, watch her Tedx talk!
Elissa GM, Parent of a high school and middle school student
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