Volunteers needed for suicide hotline

Suicide Prevention Services is seeking hotline volunteers to help reduce and eliminate suicide and suicide attempts. Training of new volunteers is scheduled to begin Saturday, May 30 at the office in Batavia.

Holly Cherry, coordinator of training, explains the benefits of volunteering by saying "Becoming a trained hotline paraprofessional increases listening and communication skills, jump starts a career in social work or simply provides satisfaction from helping others."

Suicide Prevention Services training also takes a diverse look at crisis issues and teaches volunteers how to effectively deal with them.

Contact Holly at (630) 482-9699, ext. 227 to learn more about how you can volunteer to make a difference.

Suicide Prevention Services is a wide reaching organization that offers local and nationally networked hotlines, survivor support groups, low cost depression screenings and many other community relations activities throughout the year. Visit www.spsfv.org for more information.

Its vision and mission is "To open minds, save lives and restore hope through prevention, intervention and postvention using education, advocacy and collaboration."