LOSSteam Postvention Training -- Central Nebraska LOSS Team

Central Nebraska LOSS Team Completes First Full Year

The Central Nebraska LOSS Team finished their first full year in 2015. We continue as a group to move forward in a positive manner.

Highlights of the year include:

We have about 20-25 members now and meet on a monthly basis.
We have about 6-7 licensed clinicians on board and Dr. Krista Fritson from the University of Nebraska at Kearney serves as our clinical director.
Renae Zimmer and Dave Griek are co-founders of LOSS in Central Nebraska. We visited with 2 families this past year that have experienced a suicide in their own family. One family was referred to us by a member of the LOSS team and another reached out to our team through a mutual friend.
We have stayed in touch with both families throughout the year and both doing well. We continue to invite them to events that we hold in the Kearney, Ne area.
We did hold two events this past year to keep our name out there and to promote awareness for LOSS. The first one was a LOSS walk held at Yanney Park in Kearney and the second event was a movie sponsorship weekend on International Survivors of Suicide day held at a local theatre. We also did a volleyball tournament in July of 2015 to fundraise and raise awareness as well.
We have had business cards made up along with banners, pens and brochures. We worked with the UNK Marketing Department to develop a logo and brochures.
We have handed out brochures—cards at our functions as well as to counseling offices, police stations and funeral homes, etc.
We also have a website and a facebook page.
In 2016, we have goals and a budget to bring in a speaker. We have also partnered with our Region 3 in Central Nebraska to help promote suicide prevention.
At this point—with our numbers at the meetings and our support we would like additional training and possible ideas to bring in a speaker or speakers to an event.
Renae has stayed in close contact with the local law enforcement and they are fully on board and support the LOSS Team.
The LOSS Team of Central NE has also had other communities reach out to us for support and help in starting their own chapters.
We stay in close contact with Dr. Belau and his Lincoln, Ne team as well.

Renae Zimmer
www.facebook.com/CentralNebraskaLOSS

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