If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255). The Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” continues to gain visibility, interest, and concern among parents, educators, suicide prevention professionals, and the media. The “most tweeted … [Read more...]
Polk County suicide prevention video contest winner
Levi Smith, a 2016 graduate of Central High in Polk County Oregon, created this suicide prevention video for the Mid-Valley Suicide Prevention Coalition. It's worth a watch. Visit the Mid-Valley Suicide Prevention Facebook page or their website, to … [Read more...]
Angels, their sons and daughters
Angela Jiminez’s aunt Priscilla killed herself when she was 24. She’d gotten pregnant in her junior of high school, and her family sent her to a convent, essentially to seclude her, hide her. They gave her child up for adoption. No one explained this in … [Read more...]
Stopping a bridge jumper, finding a brother
Earlier this year on the road, an Army medic in Killeen, Texas spotted a man standing at the railing of a bridge, looking lost. Disoriented. Army Spec. Oscar Killeen pulled over, stepped out of the car, and immediately noticed the haircut. The man … [Read more...]
Suicide rates on the rise
Suicide rates in the United States climbed 24 percent from 1999-2014, according to a report released April 22 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. The numbers represent a near 30-year high for suicide throughout … [Read more...]
The gun problem we don’t mention
"From 2000-2014, there were 274,819 suicides, while there were 172,688 homicides." Matt Chambers, an infographics specialist in South Carolina, illustrates a little-known fact in the series of charts --that suicides comprise the majority of gun deaths … [Read more...]
College and suicide by the numbers
http://www.collegedegreesearch.net/student-suicides/ … [Read more...]
When my teacher asked about ‘that guy who killed himself’
Writer Amy Marlow was 16 when a math teacher asked her off-handedly about her father's suicide. It happened in class, in front of 26 other students, when Amy came up to his desk to ask how to solve an equation. The conversation turned briefly to a … [Read more...]
1 PHOTO, 6 WORDS
For the past eight months, two government agencies have been collecting photos from people whose goal is to prevent suicide. But not just any photos. Messages of hope. Direct, simple communication, shared mainly through social media. This is a project … [Read more...]
Take a hike, suicide
Kolby Ziemendorf got the idea for the humanitarian group "46Climbs" after a friend committed suicide his senior year of high school. His partner in the project, Catherine Zarnofsky, prevented the suicide of a high-school classmate by calling his … [Read more...]