Stories about AFSP Tennessee
![AFSP Tennessee chapter volunteer Paul Augustyniak smiling and looking at the camera.](https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1678299027-screenshot-2023-03-08-at-1-07-20-pm.png?ar64=MTY6OQ&fill=blur&fit=fill&fm=webp&w=768)
Finding Strength Through Connection As a Healing Conversations Coordinator
My wife Alice and I had known each other for 35 years and been married for 33 years. Losing her to suicide in 2016 was a terrible, traumatic experience. It was the people I met through AFSP who convinced me to become involved as a volunteer. I realized that we gain more strength through connection.
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Finding Peace After a Suicide: One Walker's Healing Journey in Nature
An ode to the out of darkness community walks and the joy of finding peace and healing in nature after loss.
![Suicide Facts and Figures: Tennessee 2018](https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1564335560-tennessee-state-facts.png?ar64=MTY6OQ&fill=blur&fit=fill&fm=webp&w=768)
Suicide Prevention Advocates to Visit Nashville
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, and it is the ninth leading cause of death in Tennessee.
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Suicide Prevention Advocates to Visit Nashville, TN
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, including in Tennessee.
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Training Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in Suicide Prevention
Tennessee is a rural state, and law enforcement is often the first contact someone in a suicidal crisis has for getting help.
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Tennessee First State to Train All Highway Patrol Officers in Suicide Prevention
Nation’s Largest Suicide Prevention Organization Sponsors Training for Full TN Highway Patrol Force.