• American Association of Suicidology
AAS and the National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide are proud to partner with Washington DC rock/funk band DC Flow in support of World Suicide Prevention Day, Saturday, September 10. Show starts at 10 PM at the Blue Banana, 3632 Georgia Avenue (Georgia Ave Metro). The Finding Hope wristband will be available for a small donation that will go toward suicide prevention and survivor research. Let's rock for a cause!

• The Department of Defense
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
Join the “2nd Annual Week of Remembrance: Recognizing those we’ve lost to suicide” on Facebook September 6-11
Click for more details, here!

•International Association for Suicide Prevention

• The InTake5ToSaveLives.org is helping get people involved in World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th. This year’s new Take5 website incorporates a new multi-cultural approach that embraces and invokes the IASP’s them of “Preventing Suicide in Multicultural Societies.” To help spread the word about the Take5 website and WSPD, use:
•  a logo for the event that you can post on websites, in email blasts and on your Facebook pages.
•  2 one-page documents explaining how you can help, either as an individual or an organization.
• World Suicide Prevention Day banners in over 40 languages! Now bloggers and writers can help increase suicide prevention awareness locally and worldwide by writing about suicide and suicide prevention in their native languages. Individuals and companies can use the banners on their Web sites to promote World Suicide Prevention Day. Teachers can use these materials to increase awareness that suicide can be prevented.
• If your organization is not listed yet as a supporting organization and you want to be, please email Dan Reidenberg

• You Are Cordially Invited To Attend The 2nd Annual VA/COMMUNITY PARTNERS Fair for Veterans and Their Families
When: September 8, 2011 11:00-4:00
Where: JAMES H. QUILLEN VA MEDICAL CENTER
MOUNTAIN HOME,TN Hospital Atrium, Main Floor & 2ND Floor
NUMEROUS VENDORS
........Free Popcorn ........Gunlock Distribution ........Door Prizes
SEE YOU THERE!!
Sponsor: Suicide Prevention Program
Pam Willis:Suicide Prevention Coordinator
Doris Call:Suicide Prevention Case Manager
Janice Bennett:Suicide Prevention Program Clerk

• From the International Association for Suicide Prevention:

World Suicide Prevention Day 2011 Toolkit
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/toolkit.pdf
Links to WSPD resources and related Web site.

World Suicide Prevention Day 2011 Banners
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/2011_wspd_banner.php
World Suicide Prevention Day banners in over 40 languages so that bloggers and writers can help increase suicide prevention awareness locally and worldwide by writing about suicide and suicide prevention in their native languages. Individuals and companies can use the banners on their Web sites to promote World Suicide Prevention Day. Teachers can use these materials to increase awareness that suicide can be prevented. In addition, we offer these banners freely to organizations and groups that are holding events on the day.

World Suicide Prevention Day 2011 Certificates of Appreciation
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/certificates.php
This year, we will be sending out special individualized Certificates of Appreciation to WSPD participating organizations and individuals. It is our way of saying “thank you.”

Facebook World Suicide Prevention Day Event Page
http://tinyurl.com/43nu8om
Over 800 people have signed up as attending or participating in WSPD activity. Some people, for example, are attending memorial walks, lectures, concerts and information sessions. Others are simply lighting a candle, near a window at 8PM in support of suicide prevention, in memory of a lost one to suicide and for the survivors of suicide.

World Suicide Prevention Day 2011 Activities Submission Form
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/activities_mailform.php
Please use this submission form to tell us about your WSPD events and activities. Activities and events are being posted on the Website at: http://www.iasp.info/wspd/2011_wspd_activities.php