Suicide – it is not something that comes up in conversation every day. It’s a topic that most people skirt around, not quite knowing what to say or how to talk about it. But there are people listening. Many people have been touched by suicide and a handful of them are taking steps to improve mental health across the board.

Meet our New Program Coordinator, register for our Suicide Awareness & Prevention workshop sneak peek, and explore the new articles in the Resource Library.

How do you talk to someone who is hurting and in distress? What if you had a sneaking suspicion your friend was down enough to be contemplating suicide? Would you know what to do, how to act, what to say?

AgKnow has teamed up with Tara Adams at Abridge Consulting to create unique suicide awareness and prevention trainings designed for peer to peer support in the farming and agriculture industry.

Host an AgKnow event in your community, meet the research assistants and participate in the new Farm Transitions Study!

We’ve announced new Suicide Awareness & Prevention Workshops coming Fall 2023, meet our brand new Partner, explore upcoming events and celebrate our farming fathers this Father’s Day weekend.

Memberships are live, a Mother’s Day letter from Doreen Blumhagen, community events & more!

Conversation starters & exciting community events in this month’s newsletter.

Spring is here - and so is our monthly newsletter!

This webinar is part of our series on Livestock Depopulation to help you understand what many farmers are dealing with in the province right now.

Welcome to AgKnow - our February newsletter is live!

AgKnow has partnered with AgSafe Alberta to host an In the Know workshop, a virtual mental health literacy course. In the Know is designed to help you learn about mental health and illness, promote well-being in your life, how to recognize when someone is struggling, and how to respond.

This webinar is the first of our series on Livestock Depopulation to help you understand what many farmers are dealing with in the province right now, and that is livestock depopulation.

Our lead researcher, Dr. Rebecca Purc-Stephenson is conducting a new study on Study on Delivering Mental Health Support Services to Rural and Farming Communities, and we need your input!

It seems like FOREVER since I have written a blog post to update anyone on the activity and engagements happening here at the Alberta Farm Mental Health Network, aka AgKnow. There was so much to do since our funding was approved, and then finally received in November.

This training will give you an overview of farm culture. We'll take a look at the current state of farm mental health and provide you with information regarding the latest Canadian research on farm mental health.

We’re excited to share an upcoming virtual group program called Stronger Together that is for rural women. This group begins in January 2023 on Saturdays from 1 pm to 2:30 pm and will run for eight weeks.

As you may know, in May of 2022, the Alberta Farm Mental Health Network met with Minister Horner and presented their whitepaper outlining findings and recommendations for a made-in-Alberta approach to farm mental health.

There is no doubt that the farming profession is unique. It combines the independent nature and risk of being a small business owner with the fundamental challenges of managing that business under a global supply and demand system.

This report presents our recommendations to the Government of Alberta for developing a made-for-Alberta approach for farm mental health and provides direction for the work The Network is committed to doing.