In Honor of September as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NAMI CC FaithNet Brings to You Our 5th Annual Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Event, “Know the Signs: Remembering Those We’ve Lost.”
Where
Saturday, September 20 at 9:30 AM to 12 PM
Contra Loma Regional Park, 1200 Frederickson Ln, Antioch NEAR THE LAGOON AREA.
What
Please join us for a compassionate engagement of diverse speakers talking through a lived experience lens, lifting the names of our loved ones lost to suicide, with a special emphasis on our youth. We will provide symbols of hope to attendees. We’ve invited spiritual and multi-faith leaders, community members and representatives from local schools. We will raise awareness of the “Knowing the Signs” program and 988 Crisis Line. Grief Counselors will be available.
White Doves will be released in remembrance of our loved ones lost too soon.
Includes
- Free Refreshments & Activities
- Free Parking – Just tell the toll booth operator you’re attending the NAMI CC event!
Volunteer Opportunities
We at NAMI Contra Costa are holding our Annual “Know the Signs” Suicide Prevention Event at Contra Loma Regional Park Antioch, 1200 Frederickson Ln. on Saturday, Sept. 20th, 2025 from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm, and you have been specifically invited hoping you can volunteer if this subject has touched your life and the impact you are making as a leader in the schools, churches or broader community, the same as previous years. It will be a beautiful morning, and we will release the doves into the heavenly sky to memorialize our loved ones lost too soon, so we’ll need prayers. Please email us to confirm your presence, and we hope you’ll join us for this special morning.
- Setup: https://good.samaritan.com/custom/523/opp_details/6027
- Public Speaking: https://good.samaritan.com/custom/523/opp_details/6028
- Clean up: https://good.samaritan.com/custom/523/opp_details/6029
- Resource table: https://good.samaritan.com/custom/523/opp_details/6031
- General Assistance: https://good.samaritan.com/custom/523/opp_details/6032
Questions?
For questions about the event, please contact Gigi Crowder at gigi@namicontracosta.org or (510) 990-2670.
For questions about volunteer opportunities, please contact Shelly Ji at shelly@namicontracosta.org.
