Prevention
IS SOMEONE YOU KNOW THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE?
Most of the time, a suicidal person will show signs that they are in trouble and thinking about taking their own life.
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Goals:Combine Columbine hopes to create a safer community united through love and togetherness to help support anyone in isolation. We want to provide the tools needed to help these individuals and improve their lives. Through the sale of our products, we will put the money raised toward suicide prevention efforts.
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West Pines Behavioral Health and Columbine High team up to prevent teen suicide
Via YourHub:
It’s not often business professionals are able to take time out of their busy schedules to interact with students at their local high schools. However, that is exactly what happened when Dr. Glenn Most and Cara Lazansky, from Exempla West Pines Behavioral Health, attended a special ribbon-cutting ceremony that launched the relationship between their organization and Columbine High School (CHS).
West Pines has sponsored this class of leaders, enabling them to participate in the year-long program “The FIRE Within.” The FIRE Within is a high school program offered by the Carson J Spencer Foundation in partnership with Junior Achievement and the Second Wind Fund and is geared toward bringing awareness and prevention to suicide through innovation and social entrepreneurship. Since the beginning of the school year the class at CHS has been participating in the FIRE Within program and has been working tirelessly to start a business geared toward ending teen suicide within their community. The Carson J Spencer Foundation relies on the support of community business partnerships, like West Pines, through the “adopt-a-classroom” program, to bring the FIRE Within to additional schools around Colorado.
Battling Isolation:
Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. Many people find this surprising because Colorado has so many features associated with good mental and physical health. We enjoy plenty of sunshine. We are more highly educated. And we are more active and outdoorsy than most other states. No one knows why our suicide rates are so high, but one theory is that Colorado has a very high population of people who move here from other states. This means there are more people here who are somewhat isolated from friends and family and might not be as plugged in to different sources of personal support.
Isolation is associated with suicide for a couple of reasons, obviously. First of all, feelings of isolation can lead to or worsen depression. Plus, isolation increases the odds that a person will not receive a referral for help.
Luckily, isolation is one of the factors associated with suicide that we can all work to prevent. A strong support system is one of the best ways for people to overcome any adversity in their lives. We are social creatures and we were designed to interact with each other!
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