Community Forum: Suicide in the Chattanooga Area
Event Information
Event description
A Community Forum: Suicide in the Chattanooga Area
About this Event
The ten counties surrounding Chattanooga * experienced 118 confirmed suicides in 2018, corresponding to a average rate of 22.09 per 100,000. The national average rate is 14.5.
This Community Forum will discuss suicide causes, awareness, prevention, intervention, postvention and follow-up issues.
This will be a LISTENING session - NOT be an educational seminar - only collecting current thoughts, concerns and issues. Extensive notes will be taken to follow up with other meetings to address collected concerns.
This meeting is open to the public and anyone is welcomed to participate. Including:
- Teens
- Young adults
- College students
- Adults
- Older adults
- Suicide attempters,
- Family/friends who had a loved one die by suicide
- Family/friends of someone who has attempted suicide
- Veterans & their families
- LGBTQ+
- Emergency responders
- Physicians/Primary Care Providers
- Nurses/Nurse Practitioners
- Dispatchers
- Mental health care providers
- Funeral directors
- Spiritual leaders
- Case managers
- Business owners
- Elected officials
- News reporters
- Mental health service consumers
- Mental health consumers family/friends
- EVERYONE, etc.
This meeting is hosted by the PAR Foundation.
Meeting Location: 1st Floor Main Auditorium, Downtown Public Library