Jennifer Stuber

Jennifer Stuber is a faculty member at the UW School of Social Work and the founder of Forefront Suicide Prevention, which she directed for 10 years before launching BHCore. She is passionate about helping people who have lost hope due to trauma and mental health challenges. Jenn has extensive experience developing effective suicide prevention programs for youth, healthcare professionals and men in the middle years of their lives. The breadth of her training development expertise has expanded into developing training programs in behavioral health for crisis responders and first responders. She is an unwavering advocate for mental health system reform, prioritizing people-first approaches and transparency and accountability for state tax dollars. Jenn has helped to shape and to advocate for numerous state laws for more than a decade. Jenn believes that anything is possible with partnership and a growth mindset, including a unified, well-functioning crisis response continuum for people experiencing mental health challenges. Jennifer is pursuing mindful self-compassion as a workplace and professional strategy for dissemination to first responders and crisis responders because of the strong research based surrounding this brief, group-based intervention strategy and the impact it has had on her personal life.