Upcoming Events
Presentation Archive
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The Speaker Series is a biannual webinar with a regional and national speaker. Topics vary each year, per recommendations by the Speaker Series Committee.
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On alternating months, someone from the community gives a presentation on their work.
Speaker Series
May 2025: Stronger Together: Workplace Wellness and Suicide Prevention
Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D.
Brandon Anderson - Associated General Contractors of Missouri
October Speaker Series Save the Date Coming Soon
October 2025: To Be Announced
Speakers To Be Announced
May 2024: Family, Friends, & Community: Their Impact in Suicide Safety for Communities of Color
Victor Armstrong, MSW - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Reba Rice-Portwood, MEd, LPC - Safer Homes Collaborative at Missouri Institute of Mental Health
Video Recording Coming Soon
October 2024: Fostering Hope in the Black Community - Centering Engagement & Faith
Sherry Molock, PhD - HAVEN
Donna M. Scott, ThD, BCMHC - DMS Ministries
May 2023: Putting Privilege to Work: Implications of Legislation on Suicide Safety for LGBTQ+ Youth
Casey Pick, JD - The Trevor Project
Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD - Saint Louis University, Medical Family Therapy Program
Video Recording Coming Soon
October 2023: Family, Friends, & Community: Their Impact in Suicide Safety for LGBTQ+
Dr. Caitlin Ryan - Family Acceptance Project
May 2022: What’s Data Got To Do With It? Using Technology to Reduce Suicide
Chelsey Wilks, PhD - University of Missouri - St. Louis
Jaclyn Brown - Jefferson County Health Department
October 2022: Suicide Prevention in Higher Education
Rachel Czerny, MPH - The Jed Foundation
Panel of speakers from local college campuses
March 5, 2021: Widening the Lens: Setting the Stage for Social Justice and Racial Equity in Suicide Prevention
Pata Suyemoto, PhD
Jennifer Kelliher
Tiffany Lacy Clark
March 12, 2021: And How Are The Children? Cultural Responsiveness and Equity in Preventing Suicide in Our Schools
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW
Terry Harris, PhD
Monthly Meeting Presentations
2025
January 2025: Maternal Health Access Project
Nicole Wood - Behavioral Health Network
March 2025: Gambling Addiction and Suicide
Dr. Jeremiah Weinstock - Saint Louis University
May 2025: Man Therapy
Thomas Vossler - Grit Digital Health
July 2025: Kaleidoscope Training
Darius Rucker - KKA Consulting
September Presentation TBD
September 2025: Presentation TBD
Speaker TBD
November Presentation TBD
November 2025: Presentation TBD
Speaker TBD
2024
January 2024: Southeast Behavioral Hospital
Missy Bowles - Southeast Behavioral Hospital
March 2024: Suicide Postvention: Current Status, Capacity, and Areas for Growth
Dr. Bart Andrews - Behavioral Health Response
May 2024: Compact Act: Training for VA Community Partners
Elizabeth Deakos - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
July 2024: Disarming Suicide Initiative
David Ray - Behavioral Health Response
September 2024: Mental Health in the Construction Industry
Dr. John Gaal - Missouri American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
November 2024: Turning Pain into Purpose
James Dickerson - Spirit’s Joy Foundation
2023
January 2023: Missouri Child Psychiatry Access Project (CPAP) Schools
Treaka Young - MO Child Psychiatry Access Project
February 2023: Access to Services Providing Essential Needs (ASPEN) Updates
Jaclyn Brown - ASPEN
March 2023: Missouri Suicide Prevention Network (MSPN)
Jessi LaRose - Missouri Foundation for Health
September 2023: Six Feet Over (501c3)
Kate Hardy - Six Feet Over
November 2023: The Kaufman Fund’s Mental Health Collaborative - Veterans Mental Health
Mindi Allison - The Kaufman Fund
2022
January 2022: Bridges to Care and Recovery
Rose Jackson-Beavers - Behavioral Health Network of St. Louis
February 2022: Suicide Risk Formulation Safety Planning
Ryan Lindsay - Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
March 2022: 988, Building the Ideal Crisis System of Care
Lauren Moyer - Compass Health Network
April 2022: The State of Suicide in Missouri
Liz Sale - Missouri Institute of Mental Health
July 2022: Suicide Prevention Efforts for College Students in Missouri
Joan Masters - Missouri Partners in Prevention
August 2022: Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention Services
Mike Binetsch - St. Louis VA Hospital
September 2022: Conversation with SQSH - Queer Mental Health
Luka Cai - St. Louis Queer Support and Healing
November 2022: Discussion with Behavioral Health Network on Suicide Attempt Survivor Group
Dana Silverblatt - Behavioral Health Network
2021
Pledge of Hope Campaign
Associated General Contractors of Missouri
September 2021 - Brandon Anderson
Learn more here
Gun Violence Initiative
Missouri Foundation for Health
October 2021 - Jessi LaRose
Learn more here
Safer Homes Collaborative
Missouri Institute of Mental Health
November 2021 - Katie Ellison
Learn more here
December 2021 - Advances in Digital Therapeutics
Chelsey Wilks - University of Missouri St. Louis