Dance Walking Fool, INC

Dance Walking Fool, INC is a suicide prevention nonprofit that offers: 1) Social Emotional Learning (SEL) classes customized to the audience’s needs. We currently offer programs to students and teachers grades 6-12, first responders, veterans, and in corporate settings. 2) Peer Support Training is a class for everyone on how to navigate the awkward and often avoided conversation about suicidal ideation. This training teaches how to ask for support when you are having suicidal thoughts and how to listen empathetically to someone having these thoughts. Not all of these conversations require a 911 or 988 call and we provide discussion criteria to help you evaluate whether emergency intervention is needed. 3) Grief Support Monthly Zoom survivor support In honor of Buddy Check 22, a Veterans program that encourages people to call a veteran on the 22nd of each month to check in as a suicide prevention measure in honor of the fact that 22 veterans die by suicide each day. Starting on November 22nd, I will host a free Zoom meeting for grief support for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. This is a safe place where you can share your thoughts and feelings with peers. Survivors are at a greater risk for having suicidal ideation themselves in response to the death of their loved one. This is a FREE support group and your donations help cover the administrative costs associated with it. We also offer Healing Circle Honorariums to honor the lives of people who died by suicide. Too often when someone dies by suicide the cause of death is swept under the rug and all the conflicting emotions of the survivors are not expressed or not dealt with. Sometimes there is no celebration at all and the life lost is not honored because of the taboo of suicide. This is most unfortunate that the totality of a person’s life is dismissed because of the way they died. A Healing Circle Honorarium is intended to celebrate the life lost and to also guide their surviving loved ones thr