Weekly News Roundup Oct 18-24, 2021

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: UK dads who lost their daughters to suicide finish 300-mile walk – GuardianOctober 23, 2021A group of three men who lost their daughters to suicide finished their 300 mile walk […]

Weekly News Roundup April 14 – 19, 2020

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: Suicide-related distress calls increasing in Calgary – 660 City NewsApril 19, 2020In April, Distress Centre Calgary received 20% more distress calls than it did in January. “The worries are that this […]

Weekly News Roundup Dec 18, 2018 – Jan 7, 2019

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found in the last few weeks: Featured: Centre for Suicide Prevention: Giving frontline workers the skills to help others in distress – Calgary Herald December 24, 2018 Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) is one of […]

IASP 2015 Montreal Conference

CSP attended the International Association for Suicide Prevention’s Annual Conference in Montreal this past week. We learned a lot and are so thankful we were able to attend this year! Diego DeLeo and Brian Mishara, matching outfits!  Kevin Hines telling his gripping and emotional story at IASP.  [View the story “IASP 2015 Tweets” on Storify] […]