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WMU's Suicide Prevention Program does not provide counseling services. If you are thinking about suicide or hurting yourself, or if someone you know is seriously thinking about suicide, please seek help. Call (800) 273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention lifeline - available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is answered locally.

Presentations

Western Michigan University's Campuswide Suicide Prevention Program offers many opportunities for you to gain awareness about the prevalence and impact of suicide, and learn how you may be able to prevent suicide.

Reading list

We've compiled a reading list to use that supports the themes of resilience and connectedness shared at these workshops.

Poem

A New Day (My Testimony) 
Ms. Regina Stone

Beat meets sound word meets rhyme music meets lyrics 
Lost 
Life unfolds 
Paths divide into paths 
Divide into roads 
Misplaced 
Where to go 
Roads curve to mold 
Accept that God knows 
Where they fork 
His blessings still flow 
So take good notes and ride slow 
 
Foresight tougher than hindsight 
Energy provides insight into his sight 
Whose sight sees 
My plight 
Showing my light 
Welcoming 
And bright 
While I fight 
Standing for what’s right 
Seeking enlightenment 
Through that element 
Significant in another 
Vision so intricate 
Connection explicit 
Though very delicate 
My persona so elegant 
Judgment of others irrelevant 
 
Acknowledgement 
A Holistic view 
philosophizing 
Analyzing 
In depth who’s what to who 
my meaning to you Whether the answer is true 
Sharing a connection with few 
Unfamiliar and new 
Asking what do I do? 
 
Striving to avoid stress 
able to impress 
Same time express 
My thoughts through my mess 
Not seem helpless 
Nor hopeless 
I obsess 
Because I feel oppressed 
And suppressed 
In Michigan so racist and sexist 
None the less 
The entire US 
 
I continue to fight tough 
Speak rough 
is that enough 
Of a bluff 
To stay up 
When feeling weighed down 
After being laid down 
Refusing to stay down 
Down by lack of understanding 
Down by peoples demanding 
Down by niggas rough handling 
Demeaning 
Not seeing 
My meaning 
Or supporting 
My being 
Down 
Down 
Beaten down 
Down 
Broken down 
Down 
Deep and down 
Down but not dominated Down but not diminished 
Down but not out 
 
Love conquers fear 
Fear feeds fury 
Annihilated by discovery 
Crucial in my recovery 
Put no one above Thee 
As I bow down on one knee 
To see that God truly has me 
He knows me 
Freed me and showed me 
There is only one me 
Sounds of His pride echo 
Unmistakably 
unshakably 
Taking me 
To find the new me 
His me 
The true me 
Truly Free 
That’s Me 
 
Through me 
Life rises passionately 
Setting in creation 
A new day!!!