(Counseling on Access to Lethal Means)
Learn how to recognize suicide warning signs, start supportive conversations, and help save lives through CALM Conversations.
CALM Conversations Presentation
Join us for this important 90-minute workshop designed to help friends, family members, caregivers, and community members recognize and respond to suicide risk with compassion and confidence.
CALM Conversations focuses on reducing access to lethal means — especially firearms — while teaching participants how to support someone who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide in a collaborative, nonjudgmental, and supportive way.
Participants will learn:
• Common myths and facts about suicide
• Warning signs and risk factors associated with suicide
• The importance of means safety in preventing suicide
• How to ask someone about their mood and suicidal thoughts
• How to provide meaningful support to someone at risk
• Ways to help create a safer environment until a person’s crisis or emotional distress improves
CEU’s not available for this course, but a certificate will be presented to each participant.
Presented by Debbie Rueber
Debbie Rueber serves as a Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator at the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center and has a background in Public Health. She is deeply passionate about connecting individuals and families — especially service members and veterans — with valuable resources and support systems.
With more than 20 years of experience in suicide prevention, Debbie has dedicated her career to training, coalition development, and support group facilitation. As a survivor of suicide loss herself, she co-founded and continues to facilitate the Kenosha Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group.
Debbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Health Education from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and was honored in 2017 by Prevent Suicide Wisconsin with the inaugural HOPES Award for her outstanding work in suicide prevention efforts in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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For questions regarding this presentation OR information about future Safe Community Coalition event offerings, please contact: Megan Applegate Safe Community Coordinator scc@newlenox.net or (815) 462-6427
