MENTAL HEALTH EDITION
The value of instilling hope: Columbus faith leaders trained in suicide
Mohammed Dirieh
D. Malone, BS, MLD
Rabbi Shea Kaltmann
Ameena Kemavor
Vice President of the New American Resource Center
Director, Faith-Based & Community Engagement at ADAMH Board of Franklin County
Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center New Albany, Ohio
Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH)
Ameena Kemavor stood at the front of the classroom, encouraging a group of about 30 local faith leaders to get comfortable “speaking from your heart and instilling hope.” Some might say that’s what faith leaders regularly do from the pulpit, bimah
or minbar, but her advice in this case was meant more for use in times of crisis. Kemavor, vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH), was leading an evidence-based suicide preven-
tion training at the end of September for faith leaders called "Question, Persuade, Refer," also known as QPR. 'People took to him': Once a Baptist, new rabbi has unique perspective as he takes helm of Bexley's Agudas Achim The training, part of the nonprofit's
series called "Bridging Our Temples," was requested by local faith leaders and prompted in part by rising rates of suicide locally, said D Malone, ADAMH's director of faith-based and community
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