Leah Rolando, MSW
Leah Rolando is the Suicide Prevention Specialist with Mental Health America of Wisconsin. In this role, she coordinates Prevent Suicide Wisconsin (PSW), a statewide public-private partnership whose mission is to reduce the number of people who die by suicide in Wisconsin. Leah coordinates the annual PSW statewide conference. She also facilitates the Maternal Child Health (MCH) Adolescent Suicide Prevention Learning Community for local health departments in Wisconsin. Leah serves on the Steering Committee for Prevent Suicide Greater Milwaukee, a coalition of volunteers which provides training, education, consultation, and programming on suicide prevention in Milwaukee County. Leah is a Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Gatekeeper Instructor and a volunteer crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line. As an undergraduate at Illinois State University, Leah was founder and President of their university chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms, Inc., a suicide prevention organization. Leah received her MSW from UW-Madison in 2017.