Up on the High Wire: Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Entrepreneurs

SPECIAL EVENT

Entrepreneurs often find themselves feeling like they are up on a high wire without a safety net. Join us for this important conversation...let's take care of ourselves and watch out for each other!

Agenda:

5:30 PM Meet and Greet/Networking

6:00 Introduction

6:10 Program

7:00-8:00 PM Networking

As a psychologist, entrepreneur and a person who has fought depression, Sally Spencer-Thomas knows about this experience all too well. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Carson J Spencer Foundation, a Denver-based nonprofit that is leading innovation in suicide prevention. Carson was her younger brother, also an entrepreneur, who died by suicide in 2004. Today, the Carson J Spencer Foundation works to build bold, gap filling suicide prevention strategies to prevent what happened to Carson from happening to others.

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At the workshop you will learn about their compelling programs like:

· Man Therapy (using humor to engage men in mental health) http://www.ManTherapy.org

· Working Minds: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace http://www.WorkingMinds.org

· The FIRE Within: Youth Entrepreneurs Preventing Suicide http://carsonjspencer.org/programs/fire-within/

· iCare: Gifts of Compassion for People Bereaved by Suicide http://carsonjspencer.org/programs/icare/

Over the past year, Sally has been building partnerships within the Boulder entrepreneurship community to help build resources for entrepreneurs facing tough times, and she invites your feedback.