Suicide is a complex phenomenon, influenced by multiple risk and protective factors. Rates of suicide continue to be elevated for the youth and young adults of Barnstable County. Suicide prevention requires action at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. Please join a conversation led by two local physicians with expertise in this topic, Bart Main, MD, & Kim Mead-Walters, MD, and learn more about the actions our shared community is taking to reduce suicide risk.

About the Speakers

Dr. Bart Main is a board-certified psychiatrist, graduating from Indiana University Medical School and completing his training at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1982. He has worked in many mental health settings for the past 41 years, including 11 years with Cape Cod Healthcare, and now is a child psychiatrist at the Cape Behavioral Health Clinic in Hyannis.

Besides being a medical doctor, Kimberely Mead-Walters is a wife, mother, grandmother, and suicide loss survivor. When her beloved teen-aged son Jeremy died from suicide in 2016, she realized that in addition to the need to raise suicide awareness, there was no grief support available for her family and Jeremy’s friends. She and her husband created Sharing Kindness, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides suicide prevention, mental health education, and peer grief support programs on the Cape and Islands. Dr. Mead-Walters is an Executive Director of Sharing Kindness and a recently retired Board-Certified Family Physician of 30 years.