Wellness & Well-being Highlights August 11th
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of August 3, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at psychological safety in the workplace—to how to manage addiction in the workplace—to our economy’s need for unbiased data. This week I would like to take a closer look at preparing for Suicide Prevention Month activities in September.
As noted in the “Upcoming Webinars” portion of this week’s blog, you will see no less than 4 opportunities for you and others to participate in and/or share regarding suicide prevention/intervention/postvention. The first event is being delivered by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). This is being held on Sept 4 and focuses on Support for Suicide Loss Survivors (aka after-care or Postvention).[1] For those of you who have not completed AFSP’s “Talk Saves Lives” (TSL), it is highly recommended you do so before taking this course. (NOTE: In May 2025, AFSP launched a TSL version specifically for the construction industry.) The TSL course is a suicide awareness/prevention primer. For more info, please visit https://afsp.org/talk-saves-lives/.
The second one I would like to discuss is the 4-part series being delivered by UMSL & Missouri Institute for Mental Health’s Safer Homes Collaborative.[2] These will be held virtually as follows:
Sept 9 MO Firearm Suicide Prevention Learning Cohort
Sept 16 From Research to Real World: Firearm Suicide Prevention
Sept 23 Conversations for Suicide Safer Homes: CALM
Sept 30 Suicide Prevention: The Role of Lethal Means Access
Next, AGC America delivered a webinar this past July 16th that addressed Veterans and Suicide Prevention.[3] Since each of our trades is partially made up of the brave men and women who served our country, it is incumbent upon ALL of us to do what we can to assist this population. Why? Because for the past +decade, 17-25 Vets die by suicide—EACH and EVERY day—in this great nation. Nearly 75% of those deaths are by firearms! This alone should be enough of a reason for most of us to—at the very least—register for the CALM training mentioned above.
Finally, before the end of August, I highly encourage ALL construction workers to set aside 60 minutes to watch the Preventing Suicide in the Construction Industry video linked below.[4] This is a high-quality interactive video offered for FREE from the University of Washington’s Forefront. In my opinion, it is by far one of the best I have seen on this vital topic to date!
Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/
Sources: [1] https://umsystem-umsl-mimhpt.catalog.instructure.com/browse/firearm-suicide-prevention-learning-series
[2] https://caring-communities-sept1.attendease.com/
[4] https://intheforefront.org/preventing-suicide-in-the-construction-industry/
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Upcoming webinars, etc.:
AFSP: Support for Loss Survivors (9/4)
Firearms & Suicide Prevention (9/9, 9/16, 9/23 & 9/30)
AGC: Construction / Vet / Suicide Prevention
Missouri’s Suicide Safety Plan
Suicide Prevention in the Construction Industry
NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.
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