• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Speak Up

Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners

  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Inspiration
      • Ashley “Lane” Marrs
      • Ethan Matthew Young
      • Jack Davis Ryan
      • Jason Aaron Arkin
      • Sara Renea “Bob” Prideaux
    • Mission Statement
  • Walk
    • 2025 Walk
    • 2024 Walk
    • 2023 Walk
    • 2022 Walk
    • 2021 Walk
    • 2020 Walk
    • 2019 Walk
    • 2018 Walk
    • 2017 Walk
    • 2016 Walk
  • Help & Resources
    • Help & Resources
    • Local KS/MO Resources
    • Warning Signs
    • Start The Talk
    • Know the Facts
  • Support
    • Donate
    • Become a sponsor
    • Volunteer
  • Outreach
    • Community Outreach
    • In the News
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Local Outreach

Local Outreach

With the help from our donors we are fighting the silent epidemic.

 With Students

  • By creating a safe place to have dialogue with students to create awareness and harness help seeking behaviors.

With Parents, Schools, and the Community

  • By taking a look at teens today.
  • By understanding the teenage brain under construction.
  • By the importance of one . . . providing scripts for adults to use so that they have the opportunity to build trusting relationships with their children / students.   

Using Social and Emotional Learning: Peer Led Evidenced Based Programs 

  • 2018-2019 school year in a partnership with Keep the Spark Alive we were fund Sources of Strength a pilot program in all Blue Valley School District high schools, Blue Valley Academy, and Pleasant Ridge Middle School.
  • Since inception of SPEAKUP Foundation, we’ve partnered with other family foundations and administrations to place Sources of Strength by itself or in concert with other mental health programming in over 75 schools in the Kansas City region.

  • We continue to work with many other Kansas and Missouri schools, both public and private, as well and would love to talk with any school leader in the area that is interested in bringing this incredible program to their schools in the upcoming school year! Please contact Tina Rockhold at Tinarockhold.speakup.us@gmail.com.

Footer

Follow us on Facebook

Walk with us 

Become a Sponsor

Donate

If you need someone to talk you through a difficult time please call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255

TEXT OUR TRAINED CRISIS COUNSELORS ABOUT ANYTHING THAT’S ON YOUR MIND. FREE, 24/7, CONFIDENTIAL TEXT “GO” TO 741741

Copyright © 2025 SpeakUp Foundation. All rights reserved.