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MSU to host lecture, workshops on suicide prevention
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Over the last 17 years, nationwide suicide rates have increased by over 61 percent, despite boosted efforts in suicide prevention.
Suicides jumped from 29,180 in 1999 to 47,173 in 2017, a differential of 17,993, more than the populations of Whitefish and Livingston combined.
According to Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan, the increase coincides with increased federal, state and local suicide prevention activities.
“Even in the face of vigorous and well-intended suicide and intervention efforts, suicide rates continue to rise, at an average of 2 percent per year”, Sommers-Flanagan said. “The needle keeps moving in the wrong direction.”
With nearly 30 years of suicide prevention experience, Dr. Sommers-Flanagan is offering a series of public suicide prevention lectures along with workshops for professionals throughout the state of Montana, sponsored by Big Sky Youth Empowerment, a Bozeman-based nonprofit. The lectures and workshops will take a novel approach to understanding suicide, with an emphasis on strengths, resilience and a debunking of several problematic suicide myths.
The first public lecture will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on May 16, in Montana State University’s Student Union Board Ballroom D, and the first professional workshop will held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 17 in Room 165 of MSU’s Norm Abjornson Hall. Public lectures are free, and the workshops are $100 for 6.5 hours, $50 for students and unlicensed participants.
For more information, visit https://go.byep.org/advances.
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