About Us

Members are encouraged to attend monthly Zoom meetings, bimonthly meetups, and other events when available.

Members have the option to participate in one of our committees: Steering, Speaker Series, Membership & Finance, or the Task Team.

Members offer their areas of expertise to benefit the Coalition’s initiatives and infrastructure.

Members promote the Coalition through enhancing and inspiring the Coalition’s community awareness and informing others of the Coalition’s initiatives and regional value.

Members serve as suicide prevention champions of hope to the community, encouraging those they know to invest in the Coalition’s mission, vision, and initiatives.

The Coalition convenes local suicide prevention champions to invest time and expertise to promote a suicide-safe community.

How to Be Involved

There are many actionable ways you can support suicide prevention in our community—no matter your level of time or commitment.

Become a member

Becoming a member is easy, and everyone is welcome! If you register for our meetings, you will receive an email asking if you would like to be added to the listserv. Everyone on the listserv is added to our member list. If you would like to be on the listserv without registering for meetings, let us know using our contact form.

Monthly Meetings

We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 9 am on Zoom - register here.

Every other month our meeting includes a local guest speaker presenting on their work in the field of suicide prevention. See past presentations here.

Join a committee

Help the coalition run smoothly by joining one of our core committees. Click the contact form to learn more.

Steering

This group implements the strategic direction and forges new connections.

Meets monthly, outside of regular meetings

Fourth Thursdays - 9:30 am

Membership & Finance

This group manages membership outreach and maintains the budget.

Meets monthly, during regular meetings

Chair: Colleen Pace

Speaker Series

This group plans, organizes, and implements the biannual Speaker Series.

Meets monthly, during regular meetings

Chair: Elizabeth Makulec

Coalition Meetups

To build connections, we meet bimonthly for happy hour at locations across the St. Louis region. Don’t miss out on our next meetup by completing the contact form.

Events

Come walk with us at the annual Out of the Darkness Walk on September 28th, 2025.

Little Lifts

Explore the following simple and actionable opportunities to take part and help create a community where every life is valued.

  • As a member, you can put our Coalition logo and website link in your email signature.

  • Set the Coalition website as your homepage on a web browser (this helps optimize the website and move it up in search engines).

  • Share the Coalition and 988 on your personal or professional social media accounts.

  • Set a goal of telling one person a day/week about the Coalition, 988, or a fact about suicide.

  • Invite a Coalition member to speak at social clubs, community events, or other meetings.

  • Ask your children’s schools if suicide awareness and prevention education is provided to students. If not, encourage school administrators to reach out to us.

  • Ask your neighborhood or condo association to post 988 yard signs.

  • Talk to your healthcare providers (physician, dentist, etc.) about how they could share prevention information with their patients.

    • Making ‘Safety Plans Work’ pads available in the waiting room

    • Hosting a brief suicide prevention program for their staff

    • Posting 988 posters in their office or common spaces

  • Order free 988 materials from Missouri or the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):

    • Leave pens behind at customer service counters, restaurants, banks, gyms, salons, pharmacies, etc.

    • Take posters to your church, children’s schools, neighborhood library

    • Leave magnets or stickers in restrooms, parks, buildings, signs

    • Ask managers of retail stores if you can leave materials with them to use as bag stuffers

Mission:

We foster hope through an engaged community dedicated to preventing suicide in the St. Louis region by serving as a gateway to education, resources, and advocacy.

Vision:

We envision a St. Louis community that is suicide-safe.

Membership Levels

We organize our members into these levels to help us gauge upcoming involvement; they are not commitments. Donations are suggested amounts and are not required to be considered a member. If you are a new member, fill out this survey to indicate your Membership Level of Involvement for the next 6 months.

Hover over each membership level to learn more.

Accelerators Designation as a suicide prevention accelerator means skills, resources, another investments are committed to the mission and vision of the Coalition Promote and attend events sponsored by coalition; attend at least one coalition meeting per quarter, participate in at least one subcommittee and attend at least one subcommittee meeting per quarter.
Leaders Designation as a leader includes participation in the leadership group that lends skills, resources, and other investments towards the strategic planning process and organizational success of the Coalition. Promote and attend events sponsored by coalition; attend all coalition meetings and participate in at least two subcommittees; participate in the strategic planning process. Leaders are expected to work a few hours outside of meetings in addition to meeting attendance.
Organizations Patron: Can donate money but may not choose to designate an individual to participate. Supporter: Option to donate money. Designates individual(s) as representative(s) within the coalition, attends meetings regularly and participates in subcommittees; if individuals leave the organization, the organization must replace the representative. Alternates may attend meetings in place of the individual representative when necessary.

Thank You Coalition Sponsors!

Champions Designation as a suicide prevention champion in our community asks a minimum level of investment that may include being part of a community advisor board, part of a list-serv, or in whatever minimum capacity is capable. Promote and attend events sponsored by coalition (social media, website, listserv, etc.), meeting attendance encouraged but not required.