8:00 – 8:30 Virtual Networking and Introductions
8:30 – 9:00 Virtual Chapter Business Meeting
9:00 – 11:00 Virtual Presentation: "Preventing Suicide and Providing an Effective Response when the Worst Happens" with Kathleen Remington and Michelle Gonzales
Link to Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/162331194
Colorado remains in the top 10 for states with the highest suicide rates. In this training, we will share the latest research and data on suicide and suicide prevention. We’ll discuss ways to identify and support employees and teach you about the most effective responses after a suicide death- who do you talk with, what do you say, how do you support work groups.
2 PDH’s - Domain TBD
Michelle Gonzales has been working in education for 18 years as a Counselor and the Crisis Recovery and Suicide Prevention Coordinator. She authored Jeffco School’s Crisis Response & Recovery Toolkit and spent 5 years building a district wide comprehensive suicide prevention model. This model impacts 155 schools, over 70,000 students and 14,000 employees. Michelle is passionate about reducing suicide rates in her community and does so by studying and sharing effective, evidence based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention approaches with as many stakeholders as she can.
She loves kayaking, snowshoeing, being a baseball mom and hanging with her family. She and her husband have two teenage children and live in Arvada, CO.
Kathleen Remington began her EAP career in 1997 working for an external EAP in the Twin Cities. She worked as an EAP counselor and manager supporting over 50,000 employees. In Colorado, she transitioned to working for internal EAP’s and has been leading Jeffco Public Schools EAP team for over 10 years. Kathleen has received several awards for her work including EAP Program of the year, the Daetwiler Award and Outstanding Administrator of the Year from the Jeffco Public Schools Administrators Association. In her current role, she supports employees after crises including after student suicide deaths, staff deaths, school shootings and other forms of crisis recovery.
Kathleen enjoys hiking, biking, skiing, volunteering, going to the gym and spending time with family and friends. She thinks it’s important to laugh daily and to make a difference at work, at home and in her community.