Shana Burgess serves as the Director of Prevention and Community Relations for Johnson County Mental Health (https://www.jocogov.org/department/mental-health) in Johnson County, Kansas, which is a suburb of Kansas City and the largest county in the state of Kansas.

Shana shares several valuable nuggets in this episode, my favorite of which is “You don’t have to wait until it’s a crisis” to call 988.  988 is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and wants people to know that if you are concerned about someone, please call them.