Hi all, to give the short update, the member in crisis is alive. They are participating in a channel dedicated to emotional support on our Slack. They did repeat the promise to die by suicide subsequent to the first message. Maelle on of our organizers with prior experience as a nurse working with psychiatry interceded with the member in crisis. Part of our subsequent discussions amongst the organizers of PuPPy included tactics to limit mental health loading on our organizers. Unfortunately like many topics that deserve attention and a plan, we haven't completed any concrete guidelines or a policy on handling incidents in the future. I do want to keep at this one. Will share if we produce anything that's helpful. ᐧ On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 1:01 PM Ian Stapleton Cordasco < graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> wrote:

I would always try to refer them to trained crisis counselors, e.g., CrisisTextline.

If they won't reach out, you can text in for coaching on how best to help them

Sent from my phone with my typo-happy thumbs. Please excuse my brevity

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 14:46 Don Sheu wrote:

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Recently, we as organizers dealt with somebody on Slack in distress. This created a lot of tough decisions on responses. Alan Vezina my fellow founder of PuPPy took a lead. Following some coaching from social workers, he made a call to 911.

Wondering if other organizers have anything to share.

We didn't build the Ark in this case. But now after the rain trying to backfill with some process so we're better prepared.

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Thanks for the update Don. If any documentation or guidelines get written, I'd be interested in reading them. My partner is a Doctor of Psychology so we've already chatted about this and what are the first steps for mental health first aid. On Oct 15, 2018 7:29 AM, "Don Sheu" wrote: Hi all, to give the short update, the member in crisis is alive. They are participating in a channel dedicated to emotional support on our Slack. They did repeat the promise to die by suicide subsequent to the first message. Maelle on of our organizers with prior experience as a nurse working with psychiatry interceded with the member in crisis. Part of our subsequent discussions amongst the organizers of PuPPy included tactics to limit mental health loading on our organizers. Unfortunately like many topics that deserve attention and a plan, we haven't completed any concrete guidelines or a policy on handling incidents in the future. I do want to keep at this one. Will share if we produce anything that's helpful. ᐧ On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 1:01 PM Ian Stapleton Cordasco < graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> wrote:

I would always try to refer them to trained crisis counselors, e.g., CrisisTextline.

If they won't reach out, you can text in for coaching on how best to help them

Sent from my phone with my typo-happy thumbs. Please excuse my brevity

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 14:46 Don Sheu wrote:

...

Recently, we as organizers dealt with somebody on Slack in distress. This created a lot of tough decisions on responses. Alan Vezina my fellow founder of PuPPy took a lead. Following some coaching from social workers, he made a call to 911.

Wondering if other organizers have anything to share.

We didn't build the Ark in this case. But now after the rain trying to backfill with some process so we're better prepared.

-- Don Sheu 312.880.9389 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

My Python user group convenes every month 2nd Wednesdays http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/232708762/

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