Centre for Suicide Prevention

Last week was Mental Health Week!

There was tons of great stuff going on, including several informative twitter chats and news stories. 

Below we’ve compiled a list of what we found useful; let us know if we’re missing something!

Global News “Young Minds” Youth Mental Health Series

CMHA Calgary Twitter Chat 

CSP would like to thank Cenovus for donating their office furniture to us! It looks great!

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Today our staff got together to take/re-take our Tattered Teddies: Preventing Suicide in Children Workshop with Trainer Kevin Hodgson! 

Click here for more information on the workshop

This week, CBC Calgary is running a broadcast series focusing on Children’s Mental Health. This is a great topic of focus as we know that early prevention of suicidal risk factors in youth and childhood can greatly minimize the chance of risks carrying on into adulthood.

We’ll compile a list of story links as they are published.

Part One

• System Overload: Youth Mental Health Services Strained, says Calgary Doctor
  
  
• Calgary Family desperate for Mental Health Help
  
  
• Suicide Rates for Youth under 18 Jump in Alberta
  
  
• Youth with Mental Illness, Disabilities Struggle for Help
  
  
• Schools, Agencies Struggle to keep up with Youth Mental Health Services

Part Two

• Mental Illness puts Pressure on Police, Courts
  
  
• Mother of Murdered Woman wants Mental Health Reform
  
  
• Police Chief says 50% of Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness
  
  
• Calgary Police, AHS Initiative sees Big Success
  
  
• Access to Treatment Keeps Mentally Ill Offender Out of Jail

Related Resources:
Children’s Suicide Prevention Resource Toolkit
Youth Suicide Prevention Resource Toolkit

 Stay tuned, more to come!

The Centre for Suicide Prevention is happy to announce some new additions to our team!

We would like to welcome Andrea Ingstrup, who is working with us on an exciting new project, as well as Research Assistant Karin Lavoie and Hilary Sirman,Trainer Liaison.