Let's Connect Summit

The 2025 Let's Connect Summit will be held from Monday, June 9, 2025 and Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at the Savannah Convention Center.

The Summit is a multiday event focused on extending the work of the Georgia Suicide Prevention Task Force and enhancing communication about suicide prevention services for military service members, veterans, and their families. 

The Summit includes information for: 

  • Georgia's military service members, veterans, and their family members (including parents, spouses, and children)
  • Members of the community passionate about suicide prevention, including the youth community (ages 12-18)
  • Professionals who provide suicide prevention and related services (including clinicians, case managers, and outreach professionals)
  • When and where is the Let's Connect summit being held?

    The summit will be held at the Savannah Convention Center.  

    Dates: June 9-11, 2025

    Location: Savannah Convention Center (1 International Dr., Savannah, GA 31421)

     

  • How do I register or reserve my ticket?

    You will find information on the schedule, hosts, and fellow attendees at https://letsconnectga.org/summit/. More details will be added to the schedule as we approach the start of the Summit. 

  • Where is the conference agenda? Who will be speaking?

    The multi-day summit will feature a variety of keynote addresses and breakout sessions on topics related to suicide prevention and service member and veteran health, as well as activities for youth attendees.

     

  • Who are the hosts of the Let's Connect Summit?

    This summit is enabled by the work of multiple partners working together through the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program. (SSG Fox SPGP).

    The Georgia Department of Veterans Service (GDVS) is an agency of state government created for the purpose of advising, counseling, and assisting Georgia’s veterans and their families in receiving their rightful benefits under the vast and complex framework of veterans’ laws. Representatives from GDVS have collaborated to plan and implement this summit in order to maximize prevention and outreach efforts for veterans and their families. 

    The GDVS's suicide prevention program increases the availability of suicide prevention gatekeeper trainings, decreases the perceived stigma of suicide, increases awareness of suicide prevention and intervention strategies, increases the use of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies, and collaborates with existing and/or emerging suicide prevention coalitions to achieve local objectives that contribute to state-level positive outcomes.

    The Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services (AMES) aims to bring mental and organizational health resources to military, veteran, and emergency services populations, as well as their families and communities. Representatives from the AMES Research Center have collaborated to plan and implement this summit in order to enhance prevention and outreach efforts for service members, veterans, and their families. 

  • What is the SSG Fox SPGP?

    The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (SSG Fox SPGP) is a three-year grant program funded by Congress that assists community-based organizations in outreach, suicide prevention services, and connection to community resources.

    The grant allows organizations to provide services including outreach, mental health screening, education, case management services, and other services necessary for improving the mental health status and well-being and reducing the suicide risk of eligible individuals and their families.