How small businesses in the Pikes Peak region are creating big change

Nicole Weis speaks to a full room of small business leaders sitting at tables in the ChangeLine building.

Recently, around 20 local small business leaders met up at ChangeLine for the second time to discuss mental health and how to not only improve but sustain it. They are the Pikes Peak Rising Business Collective—a growing coalition of local employers committed to promoting mental health and suicide prevention in the workplace.

By taking simple, meaningful actions like sharing the 988 Colorado Mental Health Line, supporting mental health trainings, and fostering an environment where mental health can be openly discussed, members of the Collective are helping to build a more resilient and connected community.

Nicole Johnston, ChangeLine’s Transformation Manager of the Suicide Prevention Collaborative of El Paso County, did a stellar job facilitating. And we’re so grateful to Nicole Weis with the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience for speaking words of wisdom to the crew.

We want to extend a sincere thank you to everyone who showed up in solidarity of a movement to better mental health in our region, starting with where folks spend so much of their time: the office.

Interested in joining the PPRBC? Sign up today! spcollab.org/business-collective