“Influencing the future of Wyoming wellness” is the mission of the new Prevention Management Organization (PMO) of Wyoming, established in early 2012. PMO works to foster community health and ...
Tag Archives: suicide prevention
Policy and prevention
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 ...
Identity threat
Sexual identity, bullying and suicide LGBT adolescents “must cope with developing a sexual minority identity in the midst of negative comments, jokes, and often the threat of violence because of ...
“That teacher saved my life”
“If I die, I can’t be a surgeon” Mady Schmidt Age: 17 School: Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming Loss to suicide: My brother’s name was Evan. He was 8 years older than ...
DeQuincy Lezine
Bright Mind DeQuincy Lezine applies a firsthand understanding of suicidal despair to develop better prevention methods for others Perhaps no one is better-suited to help suicidal individuals than ...
Elementary insight
By the time youths, especially males, reach their mid-teens, their risk of dying by suicide rises more than 600 percent*. If only there was a way to “behaviorally vaccinate” children at an early ...
Risk and protective factors
Suicide is a complex human behavior, with no single determining cause. The factors that affect the likelihood of a person attempting or dying by are known as risk or protective factors, depending ...
Casper contagion
Three student suicides in Casper, Wyoming since October 2003 have moved school administrators to seek new ways to counter this tragedy by teaching suicide prevention. This represents positive ...
WY governor weighs in
Our students face a complicated world in their journey toward maturity. That’s why I called together Wyoming stakeholders in our children’s well-being for the 2008 Governor’s Roundtable on ...
Tight school budgets
WHERE: Miami-Dade County Public School District WHAT: Emphasizes collaborative programs that support student well-being as key to achievement HOW: Through a noteworthy, award-winning approach to ...