The Difficult Conversation

30/10/2024

Thrilled to share that I just spoke at 2024 New Mexico Statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) Conference! Big thanks to the organizers and everyone who joined the session.🌟 Your presence made it special! 57 attendees joined the session!!

- via event app

25/10/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/qpr-institute1_hello-qpr-family-shayna-klassen-qprs-activity-7255663772512456707-23gJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Hello QPR Family! Shayna Klassen, QPR's National Training Director, and Clarie Miller, QPR Master Trainer, are providing QPR Instructor Certification…

18/10/2024

It is great to asked back to the Head 2 Toe conference this year! Registration is open, hope to see our NM educators and youth supporters there!

https://www.nmstudenthealth.org/head-to-toe-conference/

25/09/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/qpr-institute1_in-collaboration-with-agc-new-mexico-qpr-activity-7244790542457262082-vlQD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

In collaboration with AGC New Mexico, QPR is hosting two Gatekeeper trainings on September 27th and October 2nd! These trainings will be focused on decreasing…

13/09/2024

Educators and anyone who knows a youth! Register today and take advantage of this free program of six sessions!

17/06/2024

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/facing-our-history-on-juneteenth/

Creating a healthier future means reckoning with the injustices of the past.

24/04/2024

The Call to Action for the Department
of Health and Human Services 2024 National
Strategy for Su***de Prevention is a commitment to
care, connect, and collaborate. Visit
www.hhs.gov/nssp to learn the ways you can
collaborate to achieve meaningful, equitable, and
measurable advancement in su***de prevention:
• How caring about su***de prevention
requires a thoughtful strategy and the
intersection of prevention, intervention,
and postvention supports.
• Why connecting to community and culture
are key protective factors for health and
well-being, including protecting against
su***de risk; and how the importance of
connecting with data and research helps
inform efforts.
• How carrying out comprehensive
approach relies on collaboration with
public and private sector partners, people
with su***de-centered lived experience,
and people in populations
disproportionately affected by su***de and
su***de attempts.

2024 National Strategy for Su***de Prevention

04/04/2024

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-invisible-shield/

PBS has a series out on Public Health, it explores how Public Health has increased life spans and saved countless lives from disease.

17/03/2024

May your day be touched by a bit of Irish luck, brightened by a song in your heart, and warmed by the smiles of the people you love. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!🍀☘️

29/02/2024

I’m obsessed with this research, doc 🩺 and book! 📖
Brain scans for everyone! 😎 This is a game changer. 😁

Since we get a couple extra days🗓️ this year I’m spreading hope in Taos AND I’m on the second read of this book, while I settling in, he’s on TV!

If you or someone you love has a brain, 🧠it’s worth💯 the read! 10/10 highly recommended!

17/02/2024

I am so fortunate to participate at the 2024 National Association of School 📚✏️Psychologists 🤓Conference as a PREPaRE and QPR Master Trainer. Amazing souls supporting our youth to thrive 🥰 I’m stoked to bring great resources and programs back to New Mexico. Unfortunately there were no therapy dogs 😫🐾

It’s no secret New Mexico, as well as the country is underserved in mental health. 💚It was really brought home when planning for the conference I noticed a significant number of school districts, Rio Rancho, Los Angeles, Alaska, Atlanta, Denver and many more. 🌎

The school districts were there to recruit school psychologists and they are desperate. 💔It is significant for us to understand how limited school resources are even with school based health centers. We know very few districts have disposable money, yet the need is significant enough to absorb this as a nessasary expense. It is also significant to note in the U.S. 80% of youth recieving mental health support do so through school. 🚌

Mental Health wages and research are decades behind what we need now. 😳 Legislation matters, funding matters, KINDNESS matters! Supporting our youth and adults brain health matters. Listening 👂to the voices 📣of our youth matters!

Every community must be aware of local, state and national resources. And of course 988! In New Mexico I am pushing for a multi generational approach to su***de prevention, particularly in our rural areas. Culture is significant in mental health and needs to be considered. There is no one cause for mental health disparities, nor will there be one size fits all solution in any state.

I believe it is peer support, stigma reduction and raised awareness that will move the needle. AND brain 🧠scans including promoting brain health from the womb. 👶

Thank You 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼to the people doing the work, the educators, 📚community members ❤️and families, 💚 it’s crucial to a thriving future, don’t stop!

Be good to yourselves and each other! 🫶🏼

***deprevention

27/08/2022