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Weekly News Roundup July 3 – 8, 2018
Hello Friends, Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Jar Jar Binks Actor Ahmed Best thanks fans for support after sharing his struggle ...
Weekly News Roundup June 25 – July 2 , 2018
Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Featured: Fighting suicide and amplifying hope with the Centre for Suicide Prevention – SOS Safety Magazine ...
First Annual Run for Life
CSP is hosting our first annual Run for Life! Walk or run into the sunrise with us, from darkness into light, to remember your loved one and/or raise awareness for suicide prevention on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. This event will ...
Weekly News Roundup June 18 – 24, 2018
Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Anderson Cooper: Thirty years after my brother’s death, I still ask why – CNN June 24, ...
2017-2018 Annual Report: In Tandem with Centre for Suicide Prevention
We’ve been driving the suicide prevention agenda in Alberta and for the last two decades. We’re seeing more momentum in suicide prevention now than ever before. Not only are the social service and health sectors doing this important work, governments ...
Weekly News Roundup June 11 – 17, 2018
Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Featured: Celebrity suicide deaths – preventing contagion – Centre for Suicide Prevention, a branch of the ...
Celebrity suicide deaths – preventing “contagion”
By the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Centre for Suicide Prevention In our culture, we are mostly silent about suicide. But when celebrities die by suicide – as Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain did last week, the issue becomes front-page news. ...
Weekly News Roundup June 4 – 10, 2018
Hello Friends, Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Featured: Seeing the signs: Understanding and preventing suicide – Global June 10, 2018 Mara ...
The purple purse
By Mara Grunau, Executive Director, Centre for Suicide Prevention This piece was originally published in the June 9, 2018 edition of the Calgary Herald. I love my Kate Spade purse. The cheery purple splash-of-colour draws attention from random people wherever ...