September Luncheon, Suicide Prevention

September is Suicide Prevention Month. Our speaker, Misty Leitsch with the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network, will educate our members on Changing the Conversation about suicide and provide useful information about prevention and detection for people in every walk of life.

She is in charge of overseeing statewide implementation of the Zero Suicide Initiative by TSPN and community partners. Before joining TSPN’s staff, she served for five years on the TSPN Advisory Council, having been appointed to this post by the Office of the Governor of Tennessee. As chair of TSPN’s Mid-Cumberland Region, Misty organized the region’s first Annual Memorial Walk and conducted numerous suicide prevention training sessions for crisis centers, behavioral health facilities, schools, businesses, and civic groups.