Mission

Our mission is to reduce suicide and its impact through collaboration, education, training, and building a sense of belonging.

Vision

We envision a compassionate community leadership in suicide prevention, guiding the work of hope, help, and healing.

Our Work

Our work is guided by our Strategic Plan 2025-2028, where we have identified four strategic goals:

• Building a Sense of Community
• Engaging Populations of Priority
• Advancing Organizational Capacity
• Growing Provincial and National Reach

On a day-to-day basis, our work can be understood as promoting hope, help, and healing.

Hope is the prevention work. We support hope through:

• The development and distribution of suicide prevention resources to the community.
• Social media engagement and campaigns.
• Facilitating presentations in schools and workplaces on mental health and suicide prevention.
• Hosting and participating in community events, such as our winter Community Skates, which help to foster peer relationships, social inclusion, and a sense of belonging.

Help is the intervention work that occurs when individuals are struggling with thoughts of suicide. While WRSPC does not provide suicide intervention directly through counselling or crisis response, we help by:

• Facilitating access to training workshops for the community
• Hosting professional development opportunities for those working in mental health, suicide prevention, intervention, or postvention fields.

Healing includes activities that are provided to support individuals and families in our community grieve and heal after a loved one has died by suicide. We help to facilitate healing by:

• Coordinating the “Why…?” Support After Suicide Loss group for those bereaved by suicide in Waterloo Region and Wellington County.
• Facilitating presentations on traumatic grief for individuals who are bereaved and those who support them.
• Hosting events for those who are bereaved, such as our annual World Suicide Prevention Day event.