Take Note: Kim Ruocco on Suicide Prevention and Postvention

Take Note: Kim Ruocco on Suicide Prevention and Postvention

On this episode of WPSU-FM’s Take Note, I talked with Kim Ruocco, Vice President for Suicide Prevention and Postvention at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). Kim shares some helpful, practical information about how to voice concern and support someone contemplating suicide and discusses the importance of postvention (the care of surviving friends/family members following a death by suicide). 

Take Note: Elizabeth and Christian Brady on Sharing Their Grief Through Writing

Take Note: Elizabeth and Christian Brady on Sharing Their Grief Through Writing

Mack Brady was two weeks shy of his ninth birthday when he died unexpectedly from a blood infection on New Year’s Eve in 2012. In the time since, his parents, Elizabeth and Christian Brady, have both used writing as an outlet for their own grief and as a way to help others who are grieving. 

List to my interview with Elizabeth and Christian for WPSU-FM’s Take Note.