2001 Annual Conference

FIRST ANNUAL SUICIDE PREVENTION CONFERENCE
Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
November 16-17, 2001

Speakers

Keynote: Colonel (Dr.) David Litts-Special Advisor to the Surgeon General's office

Other National Speakers Included
Jerry and Elsie Weyrach: Founders of SPAN-USA
Father Charles Rubey: Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide (LOSS)
Michelle Linn-Gust: Author of "Do they have bad days in heaven"
Al Kluesner: co-founder, Suicide Awareness: Voice of Education

Local Speakers
Peter Wollheim (Moderator)
Dr. John Hanks, pediatrician & Cynthia Clark, nursing professor BSU, with nursing students, Jennifer Alderete, Karla Barney, Dana Garcia and Erica Wright
Dr. Sharon Katz, Licensed Psychologist, Specialist in Grief
Rabbi Dan Fink
Richard and Trudy Jackson, Boise Suicide Survivor Support Group
Steve Thaxton, mental health counselor
Erwin Sonnenberg, County Coroner
Vicki Stephensen, National Alliance Mental Health
Erica Hill, news reporter