Tips for Understanding & Navigating Depression & Suicide Prevention

  Tips for Understanding & Navigating Depression & Suicide Prevention Parenting Well Podcast with Dr. Shelly Mahon and Kathy Valentine: This podcast covers: Resources for managing depression The role stigma plays in support services How to recognize warning signs of depression and what to do about it Some of the risk factors of depression The […]

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HOPE Lights the Night 2019 comments by Susan Marine

HOPE Lights the Night 2019 Comments Susan Marine Welcome, and thank you for coming and braving the elements this snowy evening! While the HOPE Coalition organizes this event, we are grateful to the many diverse organizations that sponsor this program to show their concern about suicide in our community. We are also thankful for the […]

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Rabbi Nadya’s talk for HOPE Lights the Night 2019

HOPE Lights The Night 2019 Rabbi Nadya Gross Ten years ago, when I was first invited to address this gathering, my greatest concern was that I would inadvertently say something that would push a button in one or more of those present and cause new wounding or re-wounding. I still feel that anxiety – each […]

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Joy Redstone: Confronting suicide: Loss can derail us

Once a month, we sit in a church basement and talk about suicide. The purpose of the HOPE Coalition of Boulder County is to prevent suicides in our community, but that work waits until after each has shared. Many of us are recovering from the suicide of a family member. Stigma shrouds any conversation about […]

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Surrounding You

Surrounding You by Barbara McAfee I wish you courage for the next step and the next, I wish you peace in the middle of the storm, I wish you unexpected joy, the strength to see you through, And a heart wide open to all the love surrounding you, It’s surrounding you. Performance is by Resonance […]

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In Response to 13 Reasons Why

With thousands of people talking about the Netflix show ’13 Reasons Why’, we here at Hope Coalition have a number of interesting articles that have appeared and we feel helps further the conversation in positive ways:   In Response to 13 Reasons Why Right now, thousands of people are talking about the show 13 Reasons Why. […]

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