SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Sometimes life thows us curveballs. Sometimes we even get knocked down.
But we're still standing.
We hope to share with others some of our greatest lessons about how we navigated life's difficulties, gained strength and resilience along the way, and worked towards our own healing.
A Mom’s Journey of Love, Trauma, Mental Health, Addiction, and Learning how to Navigate a System of Parental Expectations without Rights or Resources
In a world, “my world,” this would never happen to my child, to me, to my family. I was educated; informed; and teaching in our community and schools on mental health, suicide prevention, and substance abuse; but I still didn’t see it coming. If your child's arm is broken it would be abuse to not treat it, however, if your child's mind needs care, where do you turn? Breaking the silence on these topics and the barriers we face when dealing with our own
challenges is part of the journey, too. Join me as I set aside my professional life (RN and Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator), and instead share my personal life and lessons I have learned along the way. Things like how to know “it's” coming; how to help, protect, love, and care for a child who doesn’t want it; doing it in a system that gives rights to someone who isn’t developmentally able to accept responsibility; a system that takes your parental rights away while continuing to hold you responsible; and most importantly, how to hold hope when it seems more hopeless than ever.
Duration: 1.5-2 hour Keynote Address, possible discussion facilitation
Audience: Healthcare Providers, Parents, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agencies, Human Services Agencies, Community, Schools
This highly customizable talk can vary in length and cost. Please reach out to discuss your needs.
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Unavoidable Intersections
Substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and suicide behavior are often addressed separately, and individuals with these Co-Occurring Disorders (CODs) are largely underserved. This presentation highlights compelling data illustrating the intersections and high-impact strategies that are emerging and are supported by SAMHSA. It also offers creative approaches to person-centered, trauma-informed treatment, services, and strategies, including addressing environmental and social conditions and equitable approaches, and community-based strategies.
Duration: 1.5-2 hour presentation
Audience: Healthcare Providers, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agencies, Human Services Agencies
This presentation can vary in length and cost. Please reach out to discuss your needs.
Campus Suicide Prevention: Building a Network of Safety offers an introduction to higher ed-specific recommendations for creating a network of safety and comprehensive approach to suicide prevention. Consider how to integrate suicide prevention with broader campus prevention efforts. Identify frameworks for developing a comprehensive campus suicide prevention strategy and collect valuable capacity-building resources to support your work and create sustainable efforts.​​​​​
Duration: 1.5-2 hour presentation
Audience: Designed for all levels of staff working within Student Affairs, but may be especially helpful for Health Promotion and Campus Prevention Practitioners, Counseling Center Staff, Deans of Students, and Residence Hall Staff
This presentation can vary in length and cost. Please reach out to discuss your needs.
Incite Training & Technical Assistance
Incite Agency for Change also provides consultation and content expertise. But you are the expert on your community and organization! As such, we view any kind of consultation as a highly collaborative process. Some of the ways we may be able to support your agency’s work include the following:
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Tailored Booster Trainings
We have developed customizable booster trainings to reinforce key concepts, refresh skills, and build confidence with suicide community helper and intervention skills. They include structured dialogue, Q&A, agency resources, customized scenarios, and additional practice opportunities.
Customized Training Programs & Educational Curricula
We have experience creating evidence-based, research-informed trainings and workshops on a variety of suicide prevention and public health topics for a range of audiences, including youth, young adults, families, communities members, and professionals.
Creating a Scaffolded Approach to Training & Prevention Efforts
Everyone can have a role in prevention, different roles require different depths of training and expertise, and all of these roles can work together to create a network of safety for your clients, staff, families, and community. We can help identify who within your organization or community could benefit from what level of training, recommend the best trainings to meet those needs, and provide trainings if we are able.
Have other ideas of ways we might be able to help?
We would love to hear them!