Please use this form to nominate a person for the 2026 Indiana Suicide Prevention & Awareness Summit Statewide Awards. See award criteria below.
Forms should be completed electronically by June 16th, 2026.
Award winners will be recognized at the 2026 Indiana Suicide Prevention & Awareness Summit on
August 5, 2026, at Wyndham West Indianapolis during the lunch. Award winners are encouraged to attend.Individuals nominated could be a service provider (individual or organization) who goes beyond the care of a person and/or their family, connecting them to resources and promoting continuity of care. Nominees should be someone who has championed suicide prevention and awareness in the state of Indiana. Award categories are below.
Front Line Responder: A person who has championed suicide prevention, is skilled in relationship building, engages individuals in need of services and makes referrals. This nominee could be a traditional first responder (i.e., law enforcement, EMS, etc.) or someone on the frontline of suicide prevention or postvention (i.e., someone working with/on a LOSS Team, a crisis line, a crisis-response team, etc.). This individual or team should:
- engage with persons in the community (front line administration) for duties mentioned above
- actively work to improve their own education in suicide prevention/mental wellness
- has a passion for educating people about suicide prevention and awareness, or helping those at risk
Outstanding Community Connector: This nominee provides support for, or on behalf of, others, by navigating the mental health care system, providing resources, and promoting continuity of care. This individual goes beyond expectations, and:
- has a lasting impact or effect on family/person/community/resources
- overcomes challenges
Suicide Prevention & Awareness Advocate: A person – with or without lived experience - who raises awareness of suicide awareness, prevention, intervention, or postvention, or could be someone who creates, promotes, or advocates for change in community, state, or organizational policies that help prevent suicide and/or supports mental wellness, and:
- has a track record of initiative or the creation of a vision and purpose within a community they have served
- has made a noteworthy or special contribution and achievement within the community or profession (a champion for the cause)
- mentors others
- readily shares information or education; written articles or publishing research
- has an impact that reaches beyond their own organization/community
- finds way to creatively educate or reach people with suicide prevention education
- develops innovative programming that expands or introduces new service
- works collaboratively with public and private sector groups
- mobilizes grassroot efforts to address suicide/mental health wellness
Champion of the Year: Someone that has turned their pain into hope and/or has used their past or experience to help others.
This award has the same criteria as the Suicide Prevention Advocate above, but is for someone specifically with lived experience with a suicide loss, a suicide attempt survivor, or other lived experience that has impacted their efforts to increase awareness.
