Registration Open for Kevin's Song 2026
- kolbej5
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Kevin’s Song and representatives from community mental health organizations around the state have worked together to offer a variety of sessions that will enable clinicians and mental health advocates to better serve communities and individuals in crisis and at risk for suicidal ideation. This is your chance to obtain valuable, evidence-based strategies to address the increasing incidents of suicide and self-harm among African American youth, working aged men, veterans, seniors and the LGBTQ+ communities.
Drawing on its rich history of education about suicide and prevention, this 10th annual summit will offer a variety of keynote and breakout sessions providing many options to learn about evidenced-based prevention programs as well as practical and effective tools and treatments aimed at assisting at-risk individuals and communities. The summit will also provide support for survivors of suicide loss and those with a lived experience of suicide.
As we know, suicide is a leading cause of death in many age groups and within our own state, but we have not been making great strides in decreasing rates. The desire to provide more education to clinicians, suicide prevention advocates, teachers, and school counselors and to people directly impacted by suicide loss is why Kevin’s Song has taken a lead in Michigan for the past 10 years, with its annual educational summit to SAVE LIVES.
Throughout the education summit, attendees may visit the Memorial Forest – a quiet place dedicated to those whose lives were prematurely ended. It is a place of solace, in the middle of a busy conference center, filled with lighted trees adorned with the names of those lost and those honored. Attendees are invited to remember their loved ones with a personalized ornament.
