Bob's Monologue

Suicide has been rising at alarming rates; the overall suicide rate for children and adolescents has increased over 300% since the 1950s. (Miller, 2009) Adolescent children are screaming out for our help, are we just ignoring the signs or do we not care? For young people, an average 1,800 take their own lives and 85,000 are hospitalized for attempts nationally (CDC, 2008). With this kind of statistics we need to step in and take some action.

This past September, University of Miami staff, students and community came together to participate in spreading suicide awareness by taking part in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s “Walk out of the Darkness.” According to the University of Miami’s webpage, with more than 39,500 lives lost to suicide this year, this walk is relevant to thousands of people in the University of Miami’s community and it’s clear that UM is eager to get the word

Healthy People 2020 set a goal of reducing the number of completed suicides among the adult population by ten percent. This is a reoccurring theme from Healthy People 2010, where the goal was to reduce the number of suicides from 10.5 to 4.8 per 100,000. Unfortunately, from 2003

Preventing Suicide Healthy People 2020 is a government site that identifies health concerns based on statistics observed and collected over a ten-year period. Mental Health and Mental Disorders is one of the many health concerns or topics listed on their website and has been further subcategorized into objectives and goals (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2015). The first objective listed under this topic states “reduce the suicide rate” (HHS, 2015). The goal of this objective is to “reduce the suicide rate by ten percent” (HHS, 2015). Suicide is prevalent among varying age groups, ethnicities, and genders (HHS, 2012). It is an increasing problem prompting Healthy People 2020 to label it as a Leading Health Indicator or an extremely important issue (HHS, 2015). To meet their goal, Healthy People 2020 partnered with the U. S. Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) to create a plan that can be utilized throughout the nation. Their plan focuses on removing the stigma associated with mental health and mental health disorders while simultaneously building supportive communities with increased access to care, creating a standardized model promoting the collaboration of health care professionals in order to increase identification and data collection of high-risk patients and provide continuity of care, and ensuring the education and the adequacy of patient support systems.

Evaluation The evaluation of the programs functioning under the GLSMA was a very important component of the law, as grant recipients were required to evaluate their services on a consistent basis. There were several different evaluation methods that were utilized to track the implementation and outcomes of the GLSMA programming

All i could hear was the faint yelp of a gravely injured man. As i looked around, i found the source of the adamant yelling. “Help. Please help me,” the young man kept calling out. “I’m

"More people in the general population die from suicide than homicide in North America. There are almost 11 suicide deaths each year for every 100,000 people living in the United States, and for every suicide, there are between 8 and 25 attempts" (Brent 4203). Based on this research, the great effect of suicide is displayed. According to dictionary.com, suicide can be defined as "the intentional taking of one's own life." Suicide is a major issue for all people, but it most obviously affects those ranging from ten to twenty-four. People need to understand the tremendous ramifications caused from suicide everyday; when people take their lives, others lose their loved ones. Suicide, one of the leading causes of death of numerous people each day, has reached a crisis point for adolescents and young adults, and it needs to be prevented.

CM220: Unit 8: Assignment Letitia Merrill Kaplan University 9/4/15 Maine needs a better proactive prevention program for suicide. Maine’s suicide rate among all ages is unreasonably high. It is especially disconcerting to have a high rate among young adults. According to the Maine Suicide Prevention Program, one suicide happens every two days or 180 suicides year in Maine. It is the tenth leading cause of death among all age bracket in Maine. It is the second leading cause of death for ages 15 to 24; and the fourth leading cause in ages 10 to 14. (“Maine Suicide Prevention Program”) There are programs in place to help. They do not seem to be enough.

One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the suicide rate in the U.S. which is currently one of the top 10 causes of death. It is clearly in issue and vital to address this issue because these rates have had a steady incline from 1999-2014. This had led to an age-related suicide rate of 24% because it has gone from 10.5 to 13.0 deaths per 100,000. With such a modernized country, I would think that we would have done something about this earlier on by having more programs and being more proactive about this gruesome problem.

Love has a funny way of telling you you've found it. I, Joe Bob, saw it the moment I met her. I can tell a lot about a person by the way they look at me and I could see that her eyes were like mine. She has a lovely pair of eyes that share their secrets with me. The things she envisions is a world of such depth and ambition as well as compassion and joy. When I lay witness to those dreams mine seem so small. All I want is the privilege to get to live in her world and be a protagonist to her evils and be the chariot to her castle. That first glance did not tell me all of this at once, but when my friend Michelle introduced me to her, I knew that I wanted her. High school is funny like that because sometimes it's in-between classes that you find

In this short explanation, Kime explains the responsibility The Veterans Affairs Department has for our veterans, therefore has to come up with a better plan in order to decrease rate of suicide among veterans. Providing full attention and creating a strategy is the first step the author says. She also suggests providing “mental health experts, advocates and affected families to formulate and action plan in the coming months to reduce these preventable deaths” Kime 2016). She concludes that veterans should enroll into the VA, because most veterans that committed

Let me tell you the story of a young man named Billy Bob.Billy Bob is a young man who lives with his parents Jilly Bob and Willy Bob. He has a unique story, he is the only man in the world who doesn’t age. I know you are wondering how can this happen. Back in his hometown Smithfield,Virginia. He was in his laboratory he had built just two years ago, working on a super strength drink. This was what looked to be the way for him to become strong and rich. It didn’t work the first time so he drank some more of it and yet again it didn’t work, feeling like a failure he went back in his parents house disappointed. Yet did he know he had made something no human has ever made in the history of time.

Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center’s mission statement is “To work toward the prevention of suicide through community education and intervention services to people

Change the Direction of Mental Health Problem Suicide. The world itself hits hard when it is read. The reason for this is that these seven letters form an image in the head of the reader that is of a horrible act committed by people who have a teenager who suffered

Population strategies It has been highlighted that the removal of means used for suicide is important in management of individuals, and modification of general access to dangerous means can also be effective in suicide prevention at the population level