Understanding Suicide and Mental Health

This course will empower attendees to consider how the Church can help to provide community support for mental health.

This event is brought to you by the Department of Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary.

This Tuesday evening four-part short course will meet online via Zoom, 6:00-7:30 p.m. eastern February 13-March 5, 2024.

Although despair is not a new phenomenon, the rates of suicide and mental distress keep increasing. As people of faith, we must proclaim hope for the hurting in ways that are action-oriented, Christ-centered, and clinically appropriate. Join us this Spring for an empowering look at suicide, mental illness and distress, and the role the Church can play in providing community support to those who need it most.

Presenters:

Dr. Mary Chase Mize, PhD, LPC, ACS (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of clinical mental health counseling at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. She is a co-writer of Keep Watch: Suicide, Christ, and Community and provides suicide prevention and intervention training and programming throughout the Diocese of Atlanta. Dr. Mize is a licensed professional counselor and manages a small private practice where she specializes in working with individuals experiencing suicide thoughts, grief and bereavement, and challenges and transitions in later adulthood.

Holle Tubbs is a lay leader, writer, and advocate for people being their full, messy selves at God's Table. She attended Dallas Baptist University (B.A.) and Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div) and has worked with Children's, Youth, and Family ministries for twenty years, first in pastoral ministry and now as a member of Bishop's Staff in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. She is the co-author of Keep Watch: Suicide, Christ and Community, a suicide prevention workbook for communities of faith; her work has been featured in ParentMap Magazine, d365.org, and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

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