Join This Critical Suicide Prevention Project: Your Insights Can Save Lives

Bottom Line Up Front

As we enter a new year, I invite you to join a groundbreaking project by WeBe Life Inc. to assist the Department of Defense in saving lives. The project seeks feedback from Veterans, family members and caregivers about messages, tools and resources focused on suicide prevention. Participation takes only a few minutes per week between now and April 2024.

About WeBe and Our Mission

WeBe, which stands for Well Being, was founded in 2021 to address the shortage of mental health professionals globally. Our platform allows individuals to track critical elements of their well being: and to capitalize on peer support. We are leveraging the platform to better understand how the Veteran and military communities respond to various tools and resources focused on suicide prevention.

My Commitment to Veterans and the Military Community

I’m a clinical psychologist, and the daughter of a World War II Navy Veteran. My personal experiences and dedication to our Veterans led me to create Give an Hour, an organization providing free mental health care to Service members, Veterans, and their families, which I ran for 15 years. In 2019, I was appointed as the Executive Director of The President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS), a U.S. Cabinet Level Task Force. PREVENTS was created by Presidential Executive Order to build the first all-of-government and whole-of-nation effort focused on suicide prevention with our Veterans leading the way. In 2021 I co-founded WeBe Life Inc. to bring technology-based solutions to mental health.

The WeBe Suicide Prevention Project and Its Importance

This project is designed to gather feedback from the Veteran and military family communities on suicide prevention efforts. To be successful, we need your direct input and perspective. Your reactions and responses to materials will help inform the work we are doing with the Department of Defense to develop the most effective suicide prevention tools. For example, we will ask participants if they know where to refer family members or buddies that they’re worried about, and whether they prefer video-based information to written materials.

Joining the WeBe Project

Please join this project and be part of a mission that can save lives by contributing just a few minutes a week. Express your interest by sending an email to Lisa Calixto, Outreach Manager at [login to see] for more information and to sign up.

And please help us recruit additional participants by sharing this information within other Veterans and military family members.

Group Participation and Privacy

The information we gather will be based on the opinions, comments, and reactions that participants share within the WeBe app regarding suicide prevention tools and materials. Guidelines will be provided to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all participants. Individual data will not be shared outside of WeBe. Only aggregate information will be used to inform our work with the Department of Defense.