For three decades Wyoming has been one of the deadliest places in terms of deliberate, self-inflicted deaths. But today the state is taking aggressive action to counter suicide among its ...
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Transforming systems, lives
“Before we can transform lives, we must first transform how community-based systems work together … the mental well-being of children is not the sole responsibility of the family and ...
Legislative pioneer
U.S. Senator Harry Reid on suicide prevention As a survivor of the suicide loss of his father, Sen. Harry Reid calls on a very personal tragedy to influence mental health policy in our nation A ...
Dispelling denial
Increasing treatment-seeking behaviors H. Westley Clark will never forget the day in 1963 when a young man in his Detroit neighborhood shot himself. “I didn’t understand why he would do that. ...
Public health peril
Suicide. Just say the word, and conversation halts. It’s perhaps the last taboo. It’s also sudden. Tragic. Violent. But preventable? And that in claiming 31,655 lives in 2002, suicide is a ...
States seeking services
Moving from planning to action in suicide prevention is no easy task. Yet Mike Hogan would like to pick up the pace. “We’re stuck. It’s like we’re in a car and we’re going 35 miles per hour,” ...
Enormous toll
Suicide exacts an enormous toll from the American people. Our nation loses about 50 percent more Americans to suicide each year than to homicide. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people receive ...