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Roughly 6,000 Veterans die by suicide each year in America.

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Show your support for our Nation’s Veterans and their families by raising awareness of the Veterans Crisis Line View and download ready-to-use materials and share them to help spread the word about this toll-free, confidential resource that connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responders (Veterans Crisis Line website).

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The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is available. 

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Encourage Hope and Help is a suicide prevention website for youth (ages 10-24), parents, educators, LGBTQ, attempt survivors, loss survivors, veterans, and community members in the Kansas City area. Through education and prevention efforts, we strive to end youth suicide.

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2 days ago

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We encourage you to spread acts of kindness everyday. Lets make our world a little brighter by bringing kindness into our everyday routine (even on the bad days!).

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4 days ago

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Heres your reminder to take time out of your day to focus on yourself. Its important for us to take care of our own mental health first because we cannot pour from an empty cup!

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1 week ago

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Cheers to another Youth Mental Health First Aid! This course has been a blast to teach virtually for the past few months, and we have another on the horizon! Sign-up today for a seat in our next Youth Mental Health First Aid class scheduled for February 18th. Registration is free, but you must sign-up before February 8th to receive your pre-work. We hope to see you there! Click here to sign-up now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/copy-of-youth-mental-health-first-aid-missouri-virtual-course-registration-132107871199

Cheers to another Youth Mental Health First Aid! This course has been a blast to teach virtually for the past few months, and we have another on the horizon!

Sign-up today for a seat in our next Youth Mental Health First Aid class scheduled for February 18th.

Registration is free, but you must sign-up before February 8th to receive your pre-work. We hope to see you there!

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2 weeks ago

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Happy Monday from Encourage Hope and Help! Make today a great one- the choice is yours for how you want to perceive the day.

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Encourage Hope and Help

3 weeks ago

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Employee Spotlight Time! Everyone, please meet Lori Wheelhouse with Tri-County Mental Health Services, who is also a Team Lead with Show Me Hope! Lori has a masters degree in counseling, loves to cook and enjoys nature, and also has 4 dogs. Lori's favorite quote is "Love Does", and Lori's dream job would be "owning a food truck that parks by the ocean while using the business to teach at-risk teens how to cook." Please help us in saying THANK YOU to Lori for all the hard work! #ShowMeHope ... See MoreSee Less

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