September Suicide Prevention Month
August 31
Laurel North Building 3, Room 113, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
See how your community is here to support you. We will have community mental health, housing, food resources, and transportation representatives and have gift bags for students.
September
Somerset Hal Rogers Student Commons Cafeteria Hallway & Laurel North Building 3 Lobby
As part of Suicide Prevention Month effort, SCC students are invited to participate by making posters that creatively express encouraging and positive messages to prevent suicide. These posters will be displayed on SCC's Somerset and London campuses throughout the entire month of September. You can be as creative as you can in promoting this important message. Please refrain from using vulgar or insensitive messages as part of your poster and stay away from providing statistics. We are looking to be supportive and hopeful in our messaging. The posters will be due by August 31st at fall Active Minds Student Org. meeting 2:00pm Somerset North Cooper 106 or Laurel North Building 3 Room 119.
September 1 - 30
National ActiveMinds.org presents a digital immersive display Behind the Backpacks. Visitors of this online gallery will learn about suicide’s impact, learn how everyday actions can help create a new and better culture around mental health with reduced suicide rates, and opportunity to share your own message of hope. Free, click here for access to virtual experience.
September 1 - 30
Hal Rogers Student Commons Cafeteria Hallway – Laurel North – Building 3 Lobby Atrium
In honor of September being National Suicide Prevention Month and September 10th, 2022, being World Suicide Prevention Day, SCC's Active Minds Student Organization and other SCC programs and organizations are promoting various events and activities that will promote awareness, education, and advocacy on the topic.
Free Film Screening Sponsored by TRIO Student Support Services & Theater Dept.
September 8
Doors open 6:30pm – Showtime 7:00pm, Somerset Campus Stoner Little Theater
After losing two close friends to suicide, a group of college students from the University of Missouri was determined to enact positive change. They quickly formed a nonprofit, Wake Up, premised on spreading awareness: their educational initiatives were designed to encourage a massive cultural shift away from social stigmas surrounding mental illness, depression, and suicide.
Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention emerged from this collective movement. The film sheds light on four different groups with varied stories to tell about suicide—American veterans, members of the LGBT community, university students, and gun owners. Through their testimony, the film weaves a diverse tapestry of experiences into a multifaceted narrative of the heroes on the frontlines. As it delves deeper into their experiences, Wake Up confronts tragedy with a call to action: by exploring ways to start thoughtful conversations and push for systemic legislative change, it foregrounds steps to a better world.
September 26
Laurel North Building 3 Room 113, Doors open 3:30pm – Showtime 4:00pm
September 12
Laurel North Building 3 Lobby Atrium, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
September 13
Somerset North Campus, Hal Rogers Student Commons Building Cafeteria Hallway, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
September 20
Somerset North Hal Rogers Student Commons Cafeteria Hallway & Laurel North Building 3 Lobby, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
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