Sidewalk Chalk Talk
WHO: Team WSMR and Community Members
WHAT: Create an art piece by using chalk to highlight a positive prevention message to suicide prevention. Your art piece can focus on protective factors, positive messaging, Ask Care Escort, or ways on how to connect to protect. Create your art piece on the sidewalk outside your agency, driveway in housing or the sidewalk outside your home.
WHEN: Pick up your chalk and register between SEPT 25 -26 from the ASAP Office, Building 465, Room 128 from 0900-Noon or Housing Office from 1400-1600. Judging the artwork will be SEPT 27, between 0930-1100. There are individual prizes and best organization will have breakfast served.
WHERE: Create your masterpiece on the sidewalk outside your office or driveway
WHY: September is observed as Suicide Prevention Month. The events is a focus on awareness to prevent death by suicide.
This year's theme, "You Are a Light in Somebody's Life," highlights the critical role relationships and interpersonal connections to family, friends, and the community play in prevention.