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Let’s Talk About It: PTSD Pathways to Healing
Join a supportive conversation following EmpowerEd: PTSD Pathways to Healing with Ava Weiss, LCSW from Cohen Veterans Network.

Starting Your Mental Health Non-Profit
This initiative brings together mental health professionals and local advocates for open discussions on mental health, aiming to find actionable solutions and address critical needs.

Central Austin Connection Recovery Support Group
This support group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

The Empowered Caregiver: Building Foundations of Caregiving
Learn how dementia changes relationships over time, the benefit of person-centered care approaches, how to create a supportive care team and steps to identify and manage caregiver stress.

Research Connection with Dr. Elizabeth Thompson - Building a Safety Net: Considerations for suicide risk assessment and safety planning in the context of adolescent psychosis
This presentation will outline strategies for assessing the co-occurrence of psychosis and STBs and discuss considerations for safety planning, drawn from clinical observations and pilot data collected from psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and their caregivers.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

Grief 101: Supporting a Grieving Adolescent
Presented and Facilitated by the Children’s Bereavement Center, this course is for caregivers of teens, coaches, teachers, youth group leaders, and anyone who is in contact with teens.

Understanding Motivation and Procrastination
Explore the reasons why people procrastinate and learn techniques to get and stay motivated.

Ethical Reporting on Suicide Saves Live
The information in the session is based on research on safe reporting as it relates to suicide.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

Bridging the Gap – Bringing Together Funders and Nonprofits
This initiative brings together mental health professionals and local advocates for open discussions on mental health, aiming to find actionable solutions and address critical needs.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

V-SRG 6-Week Wellness Series
Peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

PTSD Pathways to Healing
Ava Weiss, LCSW from Cohen Veterans Network will share expert insights and practical tools to help you reduce PTSD’s impact on your relationships and reconnect with yourself.

The Psychology of People Pleasing
Explore the roots of people-pleasing behavior and its impact on mental health, and learn how to set healthy boundaries, build self-confidence, and communicate more assertively.

Clinician Workshop: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM)
Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) is a powerful addition to existing strategies to reduce the risk of suicide death in at-risk people while respecting their rights and autonomy.

Understanding Skin Picking & Trichotillomania
Join us in learning more about these body-focused repetitive behaviors and discuss the signs and symptoms, causes, and treatment options with a licensed therapist. Gain tips to manage symptoms and learn how to support loved ones who are struggling.

Veteran Spouse Resiliency Group (V-SRG) Wellness Series
The Veteran Spouse Resiliency Group (V-SRG) Wellness Series is a 6-week, peer-led group designed specifically for veteran spouses and partners navigating the ups and downs of post-service life.

Raising Resilient Children: Nurturing Emotional Strength and Adaptability
Explore strategies for building emotional strength and discuss practical techniques to help children navigate setbacks, manage stress, and develop a positive outlook on life.


What Is Mental Health?
We will explore why we have these feelings and emotions, when we might start to consider seeking professional help, particularly as relates to kids and teens.

More Than Sad: Suicide Prevention for Parents
This program focuses on parents and guardians of teen youth.

Community in Crisis: Mental Resilience in Times of Disaster
This initiative brings together mental health professionals and local advocates for open discussions on mental health, aiming to find actionable solutions and address critical needs.

Returning Responsibility to Children
Learn practical strategies for fostering responsibility in everyday activities and discuss how to strike a balance between offering children support and allowing autonomy.

What is Emotional Intelligence?
Explore the core components of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills—and gain practical tools to understand and manage your emotion.

Mindfulness for Youth (Adults Training Session)
Youth Mental Health Module for Youth Group Leaders, Teachers, Coaches, Parents, Grandparents, and anyone who deals with youth on a regular basis.

EmpowerEd: Living with Grief & Trauma
This EmpowerEd session will explore evolving understandings of grief—from early stage-based models to contemporary, culturally informed perspectives.

Understanding Depression
Learn practical tips for managing symptoms and helping others.

Strategies for Trauma Informed Service
This course shows how Trauma Informed Care practices can improve congregant, client, patient, and employee relationships, and help congregations and organizations avoid retraumatizing of those who have experienced trauma in the past.

Meditation
Help build mental resilience, reduce stress and enhance focus, through meditation.

Understanding Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
Learn the warning signs, who is at risk, and how to restore your emotional energy in this one-hour seminar.

Research Connection South and Southeast Texas 2025
Join us for an AFSP Research Connection Program, where you will have the opportunity to engage in a conversation with a researcher about their work and about suicide prevention.

Supervision Rules & Roadblocks: Navigating the LMSW to LCSW Journey
This 2.0 CEU virtual training is designed for LCSW-Supervisors to deepen their understanding of Texas Board of Behavioral Health and Ethics Council rules, ethical considerations, and best practices in clinical supervision.

It's Real: College Students and Mental Health
It’s Real: College Students and Mental Health is an AFSP-produced documentary featuring the stories of six college students from across the country.

Managing Anxiety in the Workplace
Discuss common anxiety triggers and practical strategies for managing stress, setting boundaries, and building resilience.

AFSP Volunteer 101: Virtual Event
Join us for an AFSP 101 Orientation hosted by AFSP's Chapter Leadership Council to find out how to get involved with the fight to stop suicide.

Parent Cafe: Bloom Where You’re Planted
Join us for inspiring conversations and a chance to connect with fellow parents who are flourishing in the face of military life. Come in, relax, and let’s grow together!

Forgiveness of Others
A discussion from the peer support lens on forgiving others and will encourage the positive and transformative benefits of finding peace through forgiveness.

Talking to Children About Alcohol & Substance Use in the Family
Learn how to talk about caregiver/relative substance and alcohol use with kids, how to tailor the discussion to the child's developmental stage, and how to create a supportive environment where children feel safe to express their concerns and ask question.


Understanding Suicide
Explore the causes of suicide, the warning signs, and how to cope.

Understanding Grief
Explore the symptoms, risk factors, diagnostic criteria, and treatment of prolonged grief disorder with a licensed therapist and learn practical tips for managing symptoms and supporting loved ones.

How to Get Involved: Mental Health Advocacy Groups & Community Leadership
This initiative brings together mental health professionals and local advocates for open discussions on mental health, aiming to find actionable solutions and address critical needs.