Meet the Summit Hosts

This summit is enabled by the work of multiple partners working together through the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program. (SSG Fox SPGP). Click below to learn more about this grant and the co-hosts of this summit. 

  • The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program. (SSG Fox SPGP) is a three-year grant program funded by Congress that assists community-based organizations in outreach, suicide prevention services, and connection to community resources. The grant allows organizations to provide services including outreach, mental health screening, education, case management services, and other services necessary for improving the mental health status and well-being and reducing the suicide risk of eligible individuals and their families. 

  • The objectives of the Georgia Suicide prevention programs are to increase the availability of suicide prevention gatekeeper trainings, decrease perceived stigma of suicide, increase awareness of suicide prevention and intervention strategies, and increase the use of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies, and collaborate with existing and/or emerging suicide prevention coalitions to achieve local objectives that contribute to state-level positive outcomes.

  • The Georgia Department of Veterans Service (GDVS) is an agency of state government created for the purpose of advising, counseling, and assisting Georgia’s veterans and their families in receiving their rightful benefits under the vast and complex framework of veterans’ laws. Representatives from GDVS have collaborated to plan and implement this summit in order to maximize prevention and outreach efforts for veterans and their families. 

  • The Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services (AMES) aims to bring mental and organizational health resources to military, veteran, and emergency services populations, as well as their families and communities. Representatives from the AMES Research Center have collaborated to plan and implement this summit in order to enhance prevention and outreach efforts for service members, veterans, and their families. 

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