Symposium www.ZeroAttempts.org Panel Why ZERO ATTEMPTS vs ZERO SUICIDES Breaking the Silence Symposium Panel   ZERO ATTEMPTS One Million & Counting when IN CRISIS cALL 800-273-8255 or text "sos" to 741741 SOS: Symposium on Suicide: Breaking the Silence. Saturday, Sept 30, 3-5pm, Chetco Library Purpose: to bring major stakeholders together to outline the issues, educate, provide awareness and prevention to the Curry County Community. Join our panel of stakesholders of this puzzle as YOU are an important part of the solution. Come learn why this is and what your part might be. 10 stakeholders:  * County Physical Health - Ginny Razo, CEO, Curry Health Network, (ER, urgent care, all doctors and nurses, school based) * County Mental Health - Erin Porter, Curry Community Health Behavioral Health (overall and school based) * Law Enforcement - Sherif John Ward, (Lypsic, Safe Oregon, Sherif's Department, Juvenile Department, District Attorney) * First responders - (CaOr, firefighters, EMS) * Education - Tim Wilson, Principal Gold Beach High School (schools, counselors, nurses) Veterans - Kurt Rossbach - Suicide Prevention Coordinator, VA Roseburg Healthcare System, (County VA, VA Clinic, VFW, Vietnam Vets, therapists who work with vets) * Tribal - Dorothy Wait - Community of Family Services Director, Tolowa Dee-ni Nation Government - David Brock-Smith, Representative, Oregon House (State representative, county commissioner, city supervisors) * Faith based - Vicar Bernie Lindley, St. Timothy's Episcopal Church * Media - Scott Graves, Editor, Coastal Pilot (newspaper, radio - community and commercial) Blue means they have confirmed Note: Symposium will be recorded by KCIW Radio Each participant (10) to define what their part of the puzzle is, where the successes are, what needs improving, a timetable to make it happen, and what's needed from other stakeholders, Cross Support discussion: Open for requests of other stakeholders, including any commitments and timelines. Open for public questions - A time for community members to ask questions of stakeholders for clarity. Not a time to promote their beliefs or ideas. Next steps: follow-up. Ask community to fill out an evaluation and what more they would like to know. Quotables: Ask stakeholders to provide quotables for the newspaper articles and possible radio interviews. Provide community resources * Protocols - We would like to review your protocal on suicide attempts and suicides if you have them. (ER, doctor/nurse before discharge or at end of a physical. (High percentage of suicides having seen a medical professional within the year, and high level within 30 days of the suicide.) Contact Gordon Clay at gordonclay@aol.com or call 541-469-5124. Be sure to leave a message and phone number if I don't answer. Primary website: www.TheCitizensWhoCare.org, Suicide Specific website www.ZeroAttempts.org. Snail mail: PO Box 12, Brookings, OR 97415. Why ZERO ATTEMPTS vs ZERO SUICIDES I hope you gota good nights sleep last night. However, using the most recent data from the Ntional Vital Statistics System, during that time 131 people attempted suicide and 5 of them succeeded. Taking just that short 8 hour period of time, 786 other people will be impacted by it That's a lot of people that are waiting for use to figure out how to get to ZERO SUUICIDES, much less ZERO ATTEMPTS. Naming a product or service usually developes an internal objective that gives the direction or understanding of the product so that people can say, that's right on. If we took that strategy and applied it to the national suicie prevention theme of ZERO SUICIDES, it would tell us to concentrate of men (75% of successful suicides.) This would lead us to make a concerted effort to train our boys to seniors, about spending more time in medical appointments, ask doctors more questions, find out about healthy eating, working, lifting, etc., learn the downfalls of some activities (fathers wear a helmet, not just when biking with kids, but all of the time,) Developing a cultural though pattern that it shows real strength to talk about feelings, to dig down into the mental anguish, to ask for help and get it and do what is necessary to solve the problem rather than bury it in self-imposed shame. That's a real man as Gneral Schwartskopf, commander of the Gulf War said, "I neveer trust a man who doesn't cry." What's in a name. ZERO SUICIDES would direct us to concentrate in changing the male culture that still teachs manup, handle it, deal with it, don't become a victim, big boys don't cry. Those lessons have taught men not to talk about what's going on, not ask for help, and even our federal policies like military discharge for some mental health issues prevent career military from saying what's going on for fear of being given a (section 8?) before they can get their 20 years in and retire with a nice pension. So they try to "man up", and 22 of them fail every day. I can't tell you how many mental health professionals, even in suicide prevention trainings say, that the reason more men kill themselves that women (75% of suiicides are men) is the access to guns. And while that access is the end result, it's a life-time of training that is the cause. That when there's a divorce, or a tough financial issue, drugs or alcohol have become too big an issue, or preventative measures aren't there to help, men are trained, sometimes consciuosly, like in sports (the NFL helmet issue - Senor Sauw - Chicago Bears) and no pain no gain, (basically ignor your bodies warning system in the short term which can, and often does, create future major problems (bags of chemicals used to come in 100 lb bags. They're down to 50 pound bags now, which doesn't seem much for a young man, but still add to the damage already incured by the body, and really, undully, strain what's left of the phsycaill structure. (Have chemicals, sand, cement, etc etc come in 25 lb bags. Those that want to pick up two bags at a time is their choice, but they need to reallize that's a short term goal of making fewer trips versus a long term goal to be able to work longer with a healthier body.) ZERO ATTEMPTS trys to address the bigger issue which represents a much larger drain on the healthcare system. That is is estimated that in the U.S. there are 25 attempts for every death by suicide.This represents over one million attempts a year in the U.S. In Alberta, Canada, research shows that there were 1,830 attempts per suicide. Research also shows that in 90% of the suicides (44,193 in 2015), the victim displayed signs of suicide risk that noone picked up on or saw and did nothing about. That 77% had seen a healthcare professional in the 12 months prior to the suicide, 45% of which had a psychiatric diagnosis. 31% were in mental health treatment at time of death. (NIH) 36% of women and 18% of men had some contact with mental health services within one month of their suicide. ncbi.nim.nih Therefore, we feel that it is important to find out what is missing in these encounters and become more effective at risk intenvention at those early stages. (1) www.cbsnews.com/news/us-suicide-rates-climb-higher/ "Breaking the Silence" It's time for all stakeholds in Curry County and beyond to get solve how to prevent suicidal attempts. We hope that this SOS call through the Symposium will activate the system and bring the various pieces of the puzzle together to move Curry County from one of the most prone counties in Oregon for suicide to one where suicides just don't happen. Where Oregon Stands and where Curry County stands within Oregon. How can we live with that? How can we not talk about it? How can we continue to allow the stigma to sway power over peopole so they don't get the help they need? How can we change the support systems for people, and especially 10 to 14-year-old girls, 45 to 64-year-old men, veterans and seniors that actually support them to get through their struggles? (1) Dr. Maria Oquendo, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association and a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center "It's rare for suicide to occur in the absence of a psychiatric condition." We need to find out where the crakes are that people in crisis are falling through. (Trying to get an appointment within two or or 30 days of a change in medication. Ought to be a required appointment at the time the perscription or change in perscription is authorized.) One in five adolescents suffer from a mental health issue. 1 in 4 adults, that's almost 81 million people. Suicide Deaths 2016 2015 2014 2013 2005 Age Group Leading Cause Deaths Leading Cause Deaths Leading Cause Deaths Leading Cause Deaths Leading Cause Deaths 0-9 10-14 3rd 409 3rd 425 3rd 386 3rd 270 15-24 2nd 5,491 2nd 5,079 2nd 4,878 3rd 4,212 25-34 2nd 6,947 2nd 6,569 2nd 6,348 2nd 4,990 35-44 4th 6,936 4th 6,706 4th 6,551 4th 6,550 45-54 5th 8,751 5th 8,767 5th 8,621 5th 6,991 55-64 8th 7,739 8th 7,527 8th 7,135 8th 4,210 65 and older 17th Total 10th 44,193 10th 42,773 10th 41,149 11th 32,637 * Rank Deaths Rank Deaths Rank Deaths Rank Deaths Rank Deaths Oregon 12th 762 8th 782 11th 698 10th 560 Attempts Attempts Attempts Attempts Oregon 19,050 19,550 17,450 14,000 2005: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/10lc_overall_2005b-a.pdf 2013: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2013-a.pdf:  2014: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of_death_age_group_2014_1050w760h.gif 2015: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2015-a.pdf 2016: * http://www.ct.gov/dmhas/lib/dmhas/prevention/cyspi/aas2005data.pdf One in four citizens currently have a mental illness United States Oregon Curry County Brookings Gold Beach Port Orford Pop 25% Pop 25% Pop 25% Pop 25% Pop 25% Pop 25% Population 326,474C 82,119C 4,093C 1,201C 22,483 5,621 6,526 1,632 2,305 576 1,159 290 ©2007-2023, www.ZeroAttempts.org/symposium.html 091517