Shannon Decker

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 MARYMOUNT 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 Resiliency 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