Executive Director & Co-Founder
Shannon Decker holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Idaho and has nearly twenty years of private and public teaching and administrative experience in Idaho, Nevada, and California. She is a mental health educator who facilitates various training opportunities to further the foundation’s mission of promoting mental health education and advocating for suicide prevention. Shannon contracts with The Speedy Foundation in a part-time capacity.
Education:
- UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO - M.Ed. Educational Leadership, 2014
- LOYOLA MARYMONT UNIVERSITY - B.A., Liberal Studies, 2005
Certifications/Affiliations:
- Youth Mental Health First Aid - 2016
- Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) - 2016
- Mental Health First Aid - 2017
- safeTALK - 2018-2021
- Hope Squad Master Trainer - 2018
- Psychological Autopsy - 2020
- Community Resilience Model (CRM) - 2022
Current Advisory Contributions:
- Truckee Tahoe Suicide Prevention Coalition Steering Committee
- Truckee Police Department’s Chief’s Advisory Committee
- Idaho Violent Death Reporting System
Additional Collaboration & Leadership Contributions:
- United States Olympic and Paralympic Mental Health Task Force 2020-2022
- Idaho Suicide Prevention Action Collective (Previously Idaho Suicide Prevention Coalition) 2015-2019
- Nevada Suicide Prevention Coalition
- Project AWARE Coordinator & Nevada’s First Youth Suicide Prevention Coordinator 2021-2022
- Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition 2016-2018
- Colorado Suicide Prevention Coalition 2019
- Linked by Legacy 2018-Present
- Idaho Resilience Project
- Treasure Valley United Way Mental Health Round Table
- Boise Chief of Police's Community Advisory Panel in Boise 2017-2020
- American Association of Suicidology