On the Radio

I'm on the local Suicide Prevention Taskforce and we sponsor different community events trying to bring awareness about depression and suicide. Today we had organized a depression screening from 11-4 at the community college as it was National Depression Screening Day. To bring more awareness about who we are, what we do, resources available in the community and to promote the screening we were asked to come speak on the morning show at one of the local radio stations. Bart and Terri Wasilenko, who are the co-directors of the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and I were the three guests on the show. I was a bit nervous but it turned out to be really fun, I'd do it again. The screening went really well at the college, we are working with the student development office to come back and do it again, and try to start earlier in the morning as most students are done with classes and gone come 3:00.