Bemidji State University will host a variety of activities related to Suicide Prevention Week beginning Monday, Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
• Monday, Nov. 5<\/strong> Dr. Russ Lee will give a presentation entitled “Untreated Depression and Suicide” at 6 p.m. in the American Indian Resource Center Great Room. Lee’s presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n • Tuesday, Nov. 6<\/strong> BSU students also have worked to produce a video, “To Save a Life,” that will be presented on Nov. 6 as well.<\/p>\n • Thursday, Nov. 8<\/strong> Comedian Adam Grabowski, named 2012’s fastest rising star in campus activities by Campus Activities Magazine, will perform at 9 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer 100. Grabowski has toured 32 different states and performed at over 150 college campuses, the Iowa Comedy Festival and the L.A. Comedy Fest.<\/p>\n For more information about Suicide Prevention Week activities at Bemidji State, contact the Student Center for Health and Counseling at (218) 755-2080.<\/p>\n LINKS<\/strong> Bemidji State University will host a variety of activities related to Suicide Prevention Week beginning Monday, Nov. 5. • Monday, Nov. 5 Bemidji State will host a Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Vet Center, through Nov. 6. The VA has 70 Mobile Vet Centers, customized vehicles equipped with confidential counseling space and state-of-the-art communication equipment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43660,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/43660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBemidji State will host a Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Vet Center, through Nov. 6. The VA has 70 Mobile Vet Centers, customized vehicles equipped with confidential counseling space and state-of-the-art communication equipment, that travel to communities to extend the VA’s reach to veterans, service members and their families – particularly to those living in rural or remote communities. In the VA’s 2011 fiscal year, Mobile Vet Centers participated in more than 3,600 local, state and federally-sponsored activities related to veterans.<\/p>\n
\nA “Conversation and Cookies with Connie” event, entitled “Helping a Friend,” will be held in the Hobson Memorial Union’s Scandinavian Room from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nBSU will host suicide prevention gatekeeper training beginning at 7 p.m. in the American Indian Resource Center. Gatekeeper programs are a common suicide prevention activity. The course will give an overview of various gatekeeper programs and how they can be used to recognize and respond to the warning signs for suicide.<\/p>\n
\n• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Centers<\/i><\/a>
\n• Adam Grabowski<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"