Great Minds with Lost&Found

Content Warning: Great Minds with Lost&Found episodes contain mature themes, including mental health, suicide, addiction, and others that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised. In this episode, Lost&Found continues our live podcast series as part of our 30 Days 30 Stories project for National Suicide Prevention Month. The project tells the stories of 30 South Dakotans living with mental illness, grief, or loss and demonstrates how storytelling is a critical part of suicide prevention. Host, Joel Kaskinen, chats with guests Benson Langat and Carter Gronseth about their experience running across the state of South Dakota to raise awareness of mental health with The 437 Project.

The 437 Project is a statewide run that is changing lives by raising funds for the Helpline Center's 988 Suicide Prevention and Crisis Line and raising awareness of mental health in even the smallest of communities in the state. Spanning from the Wyoming border to the Iowa border, this run is 437 miles long and is split up between 12 runners who are passionate about community building and mental health. In the case of emergencies, call the 24/7 hotline at 1-800-IN-CRISIS.

If you or someone you know is facing a mental health crisis, call 988. If you are a veteran facing a mental health crisis, call 988 and then press 1. To learn more about the work that Lost&Found is doing to prevent suicide among youth and young adults, go to ⁠resilienttoday.org⁠. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube (@resilienttoday). If you'd like to support Lost&Found, you can make a donation ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thanks to 4Front Studios for shooting, editing, and producing Great Minds with Lost&Found. To learn more about 4Front Studios, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://4frontstudios.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Content Warning: Great Minds with Lost&Found episodes contain mature themes, including mental health, suicide, addiction, and others that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, we chat with Shastin Gerbracht, a Veteran who works for the VA in Rapid City, South Dakota. She shares with us what the VA is doing to provide Veterans with care through healthcare, support groups, and other resources.

If you or someone you know is facing a mental health crisis, call 988. If you are a veteran facing a mental health crisis, call 988 and then press 1.

To learn more about the work that Lost&Found is doing to prevent suicide among youth and young adults, go to resilienttoday.org. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube (@resilienttoday).

Content Warning: Great Minds with Lost&Found episodes contain mature themes, including mental health, suicide, addiction, and others that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode of Great Minds with Lost&Found, Joel sits down with Dakotah Jordan, the Survivors Joining for Hope Coordinator with L&F.

SJ4H is a direct service financial assistance program for families struggling with the loss of a loved one to suicide. One of just two programs in the state of South Dakota offering postvention support through financial assistance, Survivors Joining for Hope is a unique program powered designed to relieve the financial burden for families of suicide loss. To learn more about this program, go to ⁠https://resilienttoday.org/programs/postvention/survivors-joining-for-hope/⁠.

If you or someone you know is facing a mental health crisis, call 988. If you are a veteran facing a mental health crisis, call 988 and then press 1.

To learn more about the work that Lost&Found is doing to prevent suicide among youth and young adults, go to resilienttoday.org. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube (@resilienttoday).

If you'd like to support Lost&Found, you can make a donation here.

Thanks to 4Front Studios for shooting, editing, and producing Great Minds with Lost&Found. To learn more about 4Front Studios, go to https://4frontstudios.com/.

Brad Hearst, Founder and President of Survivors Joining for Hope, a newly acquired program of Lost&Found's, is on the show to talk about the economics of prevention, intervention, and postvention of suicide.

Using the The CDC's seven strategies for preventing suicide found in their technical package for suicide prevention, to guide his work, Brad shares how increasing economic supports can be a protective factor against suicide. We get into the ways finances and economics can be both risk factors and protective factors for prevention, depending on the situation.

To learn more about the work that Lost&Found is doing to prevent suicide among youth and young adults, go to resilienttoday.org.

Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube (@resilienttoday).

In this conversation, Cody Ingle shares his perspective on suicide prevention from the lens of someone who has working in the LGBTQ+ space and identifies as a gay man. We break down social structures and chat about systems that impact the queer community and how that leads to increased risk of suicide.

To learn more about suicide risk and impact on the LGBTQ+ community, check out the following link from the Trevor Project - trevor01_2022survey_final.pdf.

To learn more about the work that Lost&Found is doing to prevent suicide among youth and young adults, go to resilienttoday.org.

Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube (@resilienttoday).