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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 ...
Weekly News Roundup May 28 – June 3, 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: ‘If I take my life’: Veteran’s suicide over weekend revives calls for ‘epidemic’ to ...
Weekly News Roundup May 22 – 27, 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: Can a federal bill on suicide prevention save lives in Canada? – CBC May 22, ...
Weekly News Roundup May 14-22, 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: Suicide rates for black children twice that of white children, new data show – ...
Weekly News Roundup May 7-13, 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: How to maintain mental health – Centre for Suicide Prevention Last week was CMHA’s Mental ...