Mobile Crisis and Community Partnering Webinar 3 — Creative Solutions for Mobile Crisis Teams to Effectively Engage with Rural and Frontier Communities

With some estimates of farmer and rancher suicide rates being between 25% to 33% higher than other occupations and with overall rates of suicide higher in rural communities than urban, it is vital for crisis teams to reach and effectively engage with rural and frontier communities. This session provides practical strategies for:

• Partnering with local entities while navigating stigma that can be more pronounced in smaller communities,
• Awareness-building through existing channels
• Leveraging community partners to help overcome barriers in service delivery like broadband access and vast population dispersal