According to an Alberta Health Services press release, the internationally recognized suicide prevention day is created to raise awareness and dispel some of the myths related to suicide.
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“Awareness of the issues surrounding suicide is critical”, Ranney said.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today recognized September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month with a reminder of the efforts being taken to educate students about and to recruit them to help prevent suicide in Michigan with the student safety program OK2SAY.
At the Dayton Community Center, 170 Pike St., keynote speaker Kim Desroches will describe some of the region’s many suicide prevention resources that can help instill hope and promote healing.
Pirro also suggested people should shy away from considering suicide a “selfish” act, and urges the community to act and provide the support that keeps people from making that fatal decision.
Olivia Retallack, the coordinator of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Erie County, has been placing yellow signs all around Western New York in honor of Suicide Prevention Week.
“Suicide Prevention Week is a great opportunity to learn the warning signs and to make the decision that you will not stay silent”, Julie Barrow, executive director of One Voice Volusia, said in a statement.
A number of groups have long championed the idea of a national strategy, including the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention and the federal Liberals in 2011.
These suicide-prevention events are projects of the Western Montana Suicide Prevention Initiative (WMSPI) and the Institute for Health and Humanities (IHH). On the occasion, Zimmermann has discussed how individuals and communities can deal with the rise in suicides and help in prevention.
She said that suicide has many complex causes, that the process leading to suicide is cumulative, and that every case is different.
The national Inuit political association, Inuit Tapiirit Kanatami (ITK), has developed an evidence-based suicide prevention strategy to address the crisis, but the entire country needs a comprehensive national strategy. Gaspa added that some survivors she has talked to had some kind of forewarning that a suicide attempt of a family member or friend might take place.
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The program aims to equip students, faculty and staff to notice and respond to fellow cardinals’ signs of suicidal thoughts and behavior through a number of training programs. A Daytona State College student who has lost friends to suicide will be sharing her experience and exhibiting a spoken word piece she wrote about her own journey. You can call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800- 273-TALK or go to www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. “However, for the majority of mental health patients, chain of command is not typically contacted and no changes in duty status are needed, especially when someone comes for help early on”.
