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Each year, SPAN USA hosts a Legislative Institute in Washington, DC to raise awareness about the toll of suicide and the need for suicide prevention initiatives. Formerly known as the National Awareness Event (NAE), this is the time each year that survivors, "grassroots" suicide prevention advocates, clinicians, community leaders, and researchers remember those lost to suicide, receive training on suicide prevention, postvention and advocacy topics, and visit members of Congress to educate them about suicide and suicide prevention. SPAN USA Lifekeeper Memory Quilts are displayed for all to view at a prominent location in Washington. In the past years, they have been displayed in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as well as near the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial.
Attend the year's event:
AFSP/SPAN USA's
2010 Legislative Institute
March 8-9
Embassy Suites Alexandria, VA
Click here to download the registration and hotel information for this institute. Early registration (before Feb. 12) is $75. The registration fee after Feb. 12 is $125.
Your Registration fee includes:
- Customized conference call with AFSP/SPAN USA Public Policy staff for information and advice on setting up your congressional appointments
- All conference materials
- Lunch both Monday, March 8, and Tuesday, March 9
- Group bus service to the Hill on Tuesday morning, March 9
Hotel room costs include:
- Full breakfast both Monday and Tuesday
- Hotel manager’s reception Monday evening
- Please feel free to call the AFSP/SPAN USA Public Policy staff in Washington, D.C., at (202) 449-3600 with any questions you may have.
The institute agenda is being finalized and will be available on the AFSP and SPAN USA websites, and sent to all conference registrants. The conference is scheduled to end at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9. The Friends for Life Reception originally planned for March 9 has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 27.
This conference has been funded in part by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and AFSP's Out of the Darkness walks.
Learn more about our previous events:
2008 Suicide Prevention Legislative Institute:
Achieving Change Through Action
2007: Building Hope for the Future (July 18-21, 2007)
Corporate sponsorship opportunities are available for our upcoming event.
If interested, please contact SPAN USA for more information.