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  • Teenagers get involved in suicide prevention

    July 12, 2018 |

    Valley Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlee, Montana

    Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in Montana. The Arlee Warriors, a high school basketball team, and a group of students at St. Ignatius High School, are initiating conversations to de-stigmatize mental health issues and make their schools a safe space for their peers to seek help.

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  • New intervention plan linked to lower risk of veteran suicides

    July 11, 2018 |

    Journalist's Resource |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A program called the Safety Planning Intervention is reducing the occurrence of repeat suicide attempts among veterans. The program helps veterans establish a safety plan and identify a support network that they can rely on during times of crisis.

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  • A Simple Emergency Room Intervention Can Help Cut Future Suicide Risk

    July 11, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    When a person is brought to the emergency room after a suicide attempt, they are at risk for attempting suicide again for the next three months. These patients often slip through the cracks after being discharged from the hospital, and never receive the follow-up care they need. A program called Safety Planning Intervention trains doctors, nurses, and social workers to make a safety plan with high risk patients before they leave the hospital, to help reduce their risk of a second attempt.

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  • College students train to help peers at risk for suicide, depression and more

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Expanding the reach of traditional counseling, colleges are creating programs to meet the needs of the student body’s mental health care. These programs include training students to provide peer support and mental health awareness organizations.

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  • Chasing the curve: As budgets churn, can Montana get its mentally ill care before they hit crisis?

    July 08, 2018 |

    Bozeman Daily Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Livingston, Montana

    This threatened mental health care in a tangible way, but the state has found ways to provide services differently. Despite limited funding, state health officials still choose to direct funds toward prevention, rather than only paying for emergency services. Using outpatient support groups and an integrated behavioral health system are other options. Still, the state is figuring out how to provide higher quality care on a lower budget.

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  • Papua New Guinea Aims To Redefine Masculinity In A Way That's Nonviolent

    July 02, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    Advocates who created a hotline for domestic abuse survivors in Papua New Guinea were surprised when many of the people seeking their services were men who had hit their partners. The anonymous phone service allows men to open up about their problems that led to the violence. Other programs focus on teaching young men about healthy relationships and to rethink traditional notions of masculinity that contribute to the country being among the worst in the world for intimate partner violence.

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  • New York's Suicide Prevention Program Is the First of Its Kind in the U.S.

    June 29, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Across the United States, suicide rates are increasing every year, and funding for mental health care is not rising to meet this growing need. New York will be the first state to implement a successful European program called The Attempted Suicide Short Intervention Program (ASSIP), which consists of three counseling sessions with a person who has attempted suicide, and includes follow-ups for two years after entry into the program.

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  • Shots Not Fired: A new Oregon law takes guns from people who may do harm

    June 17, 2018 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Four months after a law in Oregon took effect that allows removal of guns from people who could present a danger to themselves or others, residents used the law to seek the temporary removal of guns from about 30 people and judges granted 24 of those petitions. The strategy appears to be a promising way to stop would-be shooters. Such laws have proven effective in other states in stopping suicides and in Oregon at least four people who had their guns taken had threatened public shootings.

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  • A Worldwide Teaching Program to Stop Rape

    June 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    A program that trains girls and young women how to defend themselves against rape has proven highly effective in Kenya and is spreading to other countries, including Canada and the U.S. No Means No Worldwide trains girls how to identify risk and escape, and also to stand up for themselves verbally and physically, countering the socialization they get to be accommodating and nice. It also trains boys to respect girls and to intervene when girls or women are in danger and participants were able to stop assaults most of the time.

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  • Domestic violence: Police failed to ask 11 questions that might have saved Anako Lumumba

    June 06, 2018 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Lethality assessments have proven effective at avoiding domestic violence homicides and such a tool might have saved a Vermont woman who was murdered. The 11 questions help victims understand the danger they are in and also help law enforcement connect them with services. But officers in many counties in Vermont are either not using the tool or not doing it systematically even though an advocacy organization has pushed for its implementation and even when police chiefs embrace its use.

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