Stop Suicide: A Conversation with Colleen

Colleen Carpenter provides evidence-based training and targeted consultation to build long-term capacity to prevent suicide and improve mental wellness. Her mission is to help organizations and communities tighten their safety nets so that people who are struggling with suicide and mental health issues are identified and helped. Besides providing training and consultation, she is the Director of Stop Suicide Northeast Indiana coalition and Allen County’s Governor’s Challenge veteran suicide prevention project called Action Over Silence: End Veteran Suicide. She also sits on numerous local and state level mental health and suicide-related committees, including the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network’s advisory board. In early 2024 she became a Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) facilitator to help individuals identify the tools that keep them well and create action plans to maintain mental wellness. She has master’s degrees from Loyola University Chicago (sociology) and the University of North Carolina (public health). She has won local and national awards for her work in suicide prevention. She is also a survivor of her Uncle John’s suicide.Stop Suicide Northeast Indiana: Find us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram (@stopsuicideneindiana)