Wisconsin Warrior Summit: Suicide Prevention Conference
About the Summit
2024 Summit Recap
Session titles and speakers from this year’s Wisconsin Warrior Summit are included below:
- Opening Keynote: The Armory Project: Lessons and Findings from a Community-Partnered Approach to Preventing Firearm Suicides - Gala True, PhD
- Remembering the Lost: Findings and Implications - Sara Kohlbeck, PhD, MPH and Brian Michel, JD
- Film Screening and Panel: By My Side – Panelists: Vicki Topaz, BY MY Side director and producer; Emilio Gallegos and service dog, BY MY SIDE cast members; David Tellefsen and service dog – Fond du Lac County Veteran Service Officer; Mark Flower – Peer Supporter and Army Veteran
- Breakout 1A: VA SAVE Training – Speaker: Kylene Occhietti, Suicide Prevention Coordinator at Milo C. Huempfner VA HCC
- Breakout 1B: Suicide Risk Management in Research Involving Remote Data Collection
- Breakout 1C: Waupaca County Coaster Exchange – Speakers: Bob Bohr, American Legion member and Waupaca County Suicide Prevention Coalition member; Hailey Prosek, Epidemiologist at Waupaca County Department of Public Health; Mary Jo Tomaras, Waupaca County Suicide Prevention Coalition member
- Breakout 2A: Hooah Am I? – Speaker: Erich Roush, Director of Clinical Training for 91ɫƵ’s new BRAVE program
- Breakout 2B: Evolution of the Live Today – Put It Away program – Speakers: Dona Drew, Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator at Zablocki VA Medical Center; Mark Flower, Veteran Peer Specialist at 91ɫƵ; Marissa Mielke, Community Engagement and Partnership Coordinator at Appleton/Green Bay VA Outpatient Clinics; Peter Borucki, Veteran Peer Specialist at 91ɫƵ; and Pete Glowinski, Veteran Peer Specialist at 91ɫƵ
- Breakout 2C: Stigma of Seeking Mental Health Services – Speaker: Scott Katzka, Director of Green Bay Vet Center
- Closing Keynote: Genuine Veteran Engagement – A Two-Way Street: A 15 Year Conversation with a Veteran and a Researcher – Speakers: Zeno Franco, PhD and Mark Flower
Photos from the 2024 Wisconsin Warrior Summit
Contact the Division of Suicide Research and Healing
We would love to chat with you about any of our research or programming! Contact us using the information below.
Sara Kohlbeck, PhD, MPH
Director
(414) 955-7667
Tricia Monroe, MEd, CHES
Postvention Program Manager
Jacey Kant, BS
Research Program Coordinator