Are you, or someone you know, struggling with thoughts of suicide? Assistance is available.
What you can do:
- safeTALK — is a 4-hour face-to-face workshop featuring powerful presentations, audiovisuals, and skills practice. At a LivingWorks safeTALK workshop you’ll learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, engaging someone, and connecting them to an intervention resource for further support.
- QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) — is a 90-minute gatekeeper training conducted in-person or online. Participants learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide, know how to offer hope, and learn how to get help to save a life.
Are you worried about your own, or a loved one’s, use of substances (like alcohol, opioids, prescription medications, or other drugs)? Assistance is available.
What you can do:
Southwestern Wisconsin Network of Care is a web-based behavioral health resource platform that was locally developed and designed to meet the needs of our community.
In addition to the searchable provider and resource database, this site includes screening and triage tools, a rich research-based medical and behavioral health library, protected health records storage and more. It is designed to be extremely user friendly and assist those with mental health or substance use issues themselves, family and friends, and community contacts and professionals such as nurses, teachers and pastors, who are already helping people navigate “the system”. Because anyone can use this resource to help themselves and others find the right response, it helps to build a “no wrong door” approach.
Visit the Southwestern WI Network of Care site: https://southwestern.wi.networkofcare.org/mh/index.aspx
A tutorial video on how to use the site can be found here.
Wisconsin Farm Center
24/7 Wellness Hotline
Connects farmers to licensed mental health professionals. Those who call can also set up appointments for future in-person or telehealth appointments. The wellness hotline allows farmers and their family members to obtain immediate, in-the-moment support for mental health concerns.
Farmer Wellness Tele-Counseling Sessions
Allows farmers and their family members to obtain counseling with a licensed mental health provider in Wisconsin. Appointments are completed over the phone or through Zoom and access is both free and unlimited.
Counseling Voucher Program
Wisconsin Farm Center offers vouchers for farmers and their families to obtain counseling services from 130+ participating providers. Most providers have an agriculture background or have worked with farmers in the past. This service is free and unlimited.