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Stories about AFSP Tennessee

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Finding Strength Through Connection As a Healing Conversations Coordinator

My wife Alice and I had known each other for 35 years and been married for 33 years. Losing her to suicide in 2016 was a terrible, traumatic experience. It was the people I met through AFSP who convinced me to become involved as a volunteer. I realized that we gain more strength through connection.

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Finding Peace After a Suicide: One Walker's Healing Journey in Nature

An ode to the out of darkness community walks and the joy of finding peace and healing in nature after loss.

Suicide Facts and Figures: Tennessee 2018

Suicide Prevention Advocates to Visit Nashville

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, and it is the ninth leading cause of death in Tennessee.

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Suicide Prevention Advocates to Visit Nashville, TN

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, including in Tennessee.

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Training Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in Suicide Prevention

Tennessee is a rural state, and law enforcement is often the first contact someone in a suicidal crisis has for getting help.

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Tennessee First State to Train All Highway Patrol Officers in Suicide Prevention

Nation’s Largest Suicide Prevention Organization Sponsors Training for Full TN Highway Patrol Force.