Description: Mil-Kid, Katie Faye, discusses the impact of losing a friend to suicide and how she learned not only to survive but to grow from the experience.
This podcast was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Maxwell-Gunter Spouses Club.
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Show Notes:
National Alliance for Children's Grief
https://childrengrieve.org/find-support/
Call or Text 988 or chat 988lifeline.orgLive Through This: Suicide Attempt Survivor https://livethroughthis.org/
Mental Health America: https://mhanational.org/back-to-school/young-people-lose-someone
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Family-to-Family Program, Mental Health for Military Families https://nami.org/Support-Education/Mental-Health-Education/NAMI-Homefront
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE):
Grief Support for Suicide Loss Survivors
https://save.org/what-we-do/grief-support/,
Suicide Attempt Survivors https://988lifeline.org/help-yourself/attempt-survivors/
MCEC Wellbeing Toolkit
https://www.militarychild.org/wellbeingtoolkit
Bio: Sue Lopez
Sue is an Active-Duty military spouse (25+), parent of two adult children, and a licensed school counselor who takes pride in being a resource for military-connected students and families in transition. Families rely on Sue for her compassion, knowledge, and empathy as she has personally experienced 14 PCS relocations, 6 deployments, and one unaccompanied tour to the Republic of Korea.
She holds a Master of Science in School Counseling. Her professional license 20+ years of education experience has yielded a unique set of skills and knowledge regarding state and national policies that impact military-connected students during times of transition to include academic transcript evaluation, enrollment, and graduation as well as social-emotional supports.
Prior to her role as an MCEC Instructional Systems Designer, Sue used her field experience as a Military Student Transition Consultant to inform and establish the MCEC Military Student Consultant role. As and MSTC, Sue provided one-on-one and small group transition counseling services to military-connected students and their families at seven middle and high schools. Additionally, she provided district-wide professional development and enhanced community relationships with instillation command, community stakeholders, school administrators, and district faculty.
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