CIC’s Tricia Monroe Awarded MCW President’s Community Engagement Award
Tricia Monroe, suicide postvention program manager in the Comprehensive Injury Center’s Division of Suicide Research and Healing (CIC DSRH), is the 2024 staff recipient of the MCW President’s Community Engagement Award. Monroe was recognized for her work leading the CIC DSRH postvention program. Through their work, she and colleague Neal Davis conduct active outreach to survivors of suicide loss within Milwaukee County and helps connect them with needed supports and resources. She has also worked to develop a community-wide response that considers cultural and linguistic needs. Monroe is passionate about education and amplification of grief awareness.
“This work is important because we are recognizing and connecting with the individual, within an unjust system. Community engagement alone is not enough. There has to be community partnership. There must be community elevation. Their stories must be shared, their resiliency uplifted, and their justice worked for, in all the small and big decisions we make in this work,” Monroe said in her acceptance speech at the May 3 ceremony honoring awardees.
The President’s Community Engagement Award recognizes exemplary community-academic partnerships, community-engaged research, and community outreach activities and programs of MCW faculty, staff, students, and community partners. The award is presented annually by MCW’s Office of Community Engagement to awardees in four categories – MCW faculty, staff, students, and community partners – to recognize exemplary community engagement work.