EIU Counseling Clinic

2024 Spring
Annual Bonine Suicide Prevention Conference

Creating Universality: Share Your Story and Learn You Are Not Alone.

This conference is funded by the Thomas A. Bonine Rainbow of Hope Fund

Powerpoints from the Spring 2024 Conference:

Keynote (Josh Rivedal): How Storytelling is Suicide Prevention 2.0 

Ashley Cosby: Perinatal Mental Health: Screening, Connecting, and Supporting Families During and After Pregnancy.

Boatemaa Tawiah-Sarpong and Chelsy Cunningham: Rural Communities Response to a Local Suicide

Jessica Cobert: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious Trauma Among Helping Professionals: Helping the Helper

Pictured from left to right: Carrie (Bonine) Murphy, Joshua Rivedal, and Tom Bonine. Joshua was this year's keynote speaker. His story and the knowledge he shared was moving, helpful, and very much appreciated. Carrie and Tom shared their experience, which was also very powerful. Through the support of the EIU Foundation and the efforts of the Bonine family, the Thomas A. Bonine Rainbow of Hope Fund was established to fund this annual suicide prevention conference.