If you are in crisis and located in the United States, call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – dial 988 or go to https://988lifeline.org/chat.
If it is a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1. If you are outside of the United States, go to
https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/ to locate the nearest crisis helpline.
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📣KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCMENT for CrisisCon25! Register today at www.crisiscon.org/register.html to join us!📣
Dr. Margie Balfour is a psychiatrist and national leader in crisis care, quality improvement, outcome measurement, and law enforcement responses to behavioral health emergencies. As the founder of MultiPass Consulting, she helps communities and organizations across the country develop and improve their behavioral health crisis systems.
Dr. Balfour also serves an Executive Policy Advisor at Connections Health Solutions, where she previously held the role of Chief of Quality & Clinical Innovation. In that role, she led the transformation of the Crisis Response Center in Tucson into the centerpiece of a nationally recognized crisis system and played a vital role in Connections’ expansion into multiple states.
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⭐️CrisisCon25 Plenary Announcement⭐️
Bart Andrews, PhD, is the Chief Clinical Officer at Behavioral Health Response. Dr. Andrews is a board member of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and chair of the AAS Advisory Council, facilitator of Missouri’s Suicide Prevention in Healthcare ECHO, a member of the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network Executive Committee and Suicide Prevention in Schools Committee Chair, a recipient of the 2022 American Association of Suicidology Roger Tierney Service Award and a ZeroSuicide Academy Faculty member. Dr. Andrews is a strong adherent of scientific methodology as the best path to understanding suicide and developing evidence-based interventions. Dr. Andrews is a suicide attempt survivor and a proponent of engaging lived experience into formal scientific inquiry to improve our suicide prevention efforts. Dr. Andrews is also known far and wide for his mastery of Facebook memery (meme-ory).
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The agenda for CrisisCon25 is now published on the CrisisCon website: www.crisiscon.org/agenda.html
Register to attend soon in order to secure your spot.
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Ready to share all about the International Council for Helplines at the National Problem Gambling Conference this week.
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Michael Reading (International Council for Helplines) and Heather Honaker (Crisis Residential Association) representing CrisisCon at CoRCon - the National Co-Responder Conference.
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‼️‼️ THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH is the final day to submit your proposals to present at CrisisCon25 ‼️‼️
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CrisisCon24: Call For Presentations The Crisis Residential Association and the International Council for Helplines are proud to announce CrisisCon24, taking place in Phoenix, AZ October 14 -...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
The ICH board held an in-person board meeting on May 1 and 2. Our meeting focused on ICH business and a new strategic plan was developed and, most importantly, how to best support ICH members.
In the photo from left to right:
Bottom row: Beau Pinkham, Carolyn Levitin
Second Row: Justin Chase, Brenda Patterson, Wendy Martinez-Farmer, Michael Reading (ICH Executive Director), Sarah Nelson, Kelly Clarke, Eileen Davis
Back Row: Stephanie Logan (joining remotely)
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CrisisCon25 Registration is open today for members only. Registration will open to the public next Monday, 5/12/2025. Register soon to secure your spot! Hope to see many ICH members at CrisisCon25 in Indianapolis!
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