This month, Karen and I had the opportunity to attend a 2-day mental health workshop, learning more about the incredible stigma that keeps people with real and valid struggles from getting the help and support they need. Cru missionaries are no less susceptible to these challenges, so it was incredibly important to learn and discuss alongside many of our leadership. Toward the end, we took a suicide prevention course called “QPR” (sort of like “CPR” for someone who is at risk of suicide). I’ll paste an info card here (as well as a picture of our suicide-prevention manga comic from Cru Japan), but the biggest takeaway I got is that it is better to ask and enter in even if you don’t know what you’re doing.
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