Minnesota Veteran Suicide Prevention and Awareness Day 

The Minnesota Department of Veteran Affairs will be holding an event for Minnesota Veteran Suicide Prevention and Awareness Day on Saturday, October 7 at Paul Bunyan Park in Bemidji. Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Suicide Prevention Coordinator Kristi Stites has more information on the event. 

One of the many tools that the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs have been promoting lately is the Veterans Crisis Line also known as 988 and their link vet program. 

Stites also shared how you can help out and do your part in the prevention and awarness of suicide.

Stites is also looking for opportunities to provide suicide prevention education to many different entities across the state and she is also looking for people to volunteer in a research project. Stites has more information. 

For more information email the MN Department of Veteran Affairs at SuicidePrevention.MDVA@state.mn.us or go to their website mn.gov/mdva.