TAPS TALKS: MANAGING SUBSTANCE USE DURING THIS CHALLENGING TIME
With people facing additional stress and isolation, concerns about substance use and self-medication are real.
Presented by the TAPS Institute for Hope and Healing®, this live connection with Franklin Cook, MA, CPC, addresses these concerns of substance use, whether for yourself or for a loved one.
TAPS TALKS: MANAGING SUBSTANCE USE DURING THIS CHALLENGING TIME
MARCH 29, 2020, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM EASTERN
LIVE CONNECTION | NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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This live connection is free and open to the public.
FEATURING
Franklin Cook is an Army veteran whose father, an Air Force veteran, died by suicide in 1978. Since 1999, Franklin has used his experience as a recovering addict and as a survivor of a loved one’s traumatic death to promote and implement peer support for bereaved people. He has worked as a consultant at TAPS national seminars since 2012, and he recently helped TAPS produce a booklet for people newly bereaved by suicide. Franklin was a member of the board of directors of the Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN USA) for six years and served as Director of Survivor and Bereavement Programs for SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education) and is a longtime member of the Loss Survivor Division of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) where he was named AAS Survivor of the Year in 2013. Franklin has been a member of the Consumer-Survivor Subcommittee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline since 2005.