In the lasting glow of Saturday’s Mental Health Academy’s annual Suicide Prevention Summit, I discovered 33 new blog followers. We had right around 3,000 for the session, and the chat-based posts were overwhelmingly positive and affirming. One person wrote, “You can use these comments to think about 1,000 good things from today.” The comments were THAT GOOD. I am deeply grateful for the positive feedback and amazing support of my work. Thank-you!
This year I’m embarking, along with Dylan Wright of Families First (thanks Dylan!), on something new, and possibly ill-advised. We’re hosting three Montana Happiness Project interns! My thinking was that because I’m growing long of tooth (haha), I need to begin formally passing on my knowledge and skills to the next generation. Of course, as most of you know, I’ve been passing on information and doing supervision for decades, but in this case, the process is somewhat outside of the University of Montana, and will involve a bit more mentoring. You’ll be hearing about this new wave of Montana Happiness stuff off and on in the coming months.
Here’s the first volley.
To get our interns ready, Dylan and I are creating content. I guess that makes us content creators. Cool. One of our first creations is a Step-by-Step Suicide Assessment Guide. I like to give stuff away, and so I’ve included a pdf of the guide here.
This guide is designed to be used flexibly. Mostly, it’s a knowledge-base (complete with some interesting links) that you can use to frame how you do suicide assessment and safety planning. I hope it’s useful to you in your work.
Have a fabulous Monday!
John SF
John Sommers-Flanagan 
Thank you so much for the amazing session and this guide! You are so appreciated!
Thanks Susan! I hope the guide is helpful. I appreciate your appreciation:)!
John I haven’t commented here in some time but you are truly a positive energy in your approach to treating SI. Also quick shout out to Rita for her work on this too. Thanks for being apart of the MHA training. I will continue to read your enjoyable blogs.
Thanks Kyle! I appreciate your supportive feedback. I’ll pass along your shout out to Rita. Thanks for your important work! JSF
Thank you for allowing me to be part of this team John. I am truly honored… and given way too much credit by you 😉
You’re welcome. As usual, you underestimate yourself . . . or, as GWB would have said, you misunderestimate yourself. haha.
Thank you for the freebies!
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