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A statement from Amanda Demmer, current Program Coordinator: With mixed emotions, I share the news that I will be stepping down from my position as WRSPC’s Program Coordinator. I am saddened to [...]

The Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council (WRSPC) is inviting applications for new Board Members to serve a two-year term (September 2021 to August 2023). Read this document to learn more [...]

In June of 2020, the Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council committed to growth by continuously pursuing opportunities to view suicide prevention efforts from a lens of anti-racism. As part [...]

Developed by Srishti Sharma, WRSPC Volunteer The final form of protective factors in this series is Spiritual Protective Factors. Spirituality can be thought of as a connection to something [...]

This week in our Resilience & Protective Factors series, we are looking at Social Protective Factors. While last week’s psychological factors looked at internal factors, this week we are [...]

This week in our Resilience & Protective Factors series, we’re looking at Psychological factors. Psychological factors might be what most of us typically think of when we think of [...]

Each week in this series, we’ll look at one category of Resilience & Protective factors and share 3 factors within that category. This week, we’ll be exploring Biophysical Resilience & [...]

World Suicide Prevention Day provides an opportunity for the community to gather, to remember, and to heal. Each year the WRSPC hosts an annual World Suicide Prevention Day event, encouraging [...]

The WRSPC joins the community in mourning and acknowledges the recent tragic and devastating experiences of anti-Black systemic racism in our world and the impact of racialized violence.  [...]