suicide prevention

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Vermont Governor Phil Scott dedicated most of his weekly briefing today to raising awareness about mental health resources available in the state.

This summer, Outside Art in Plattsburgh, in conjunction with suicide prevention advocates, completed a mural adjacent to the middle school. It will be dedicated this weekend, but first came a community kickoff Wednesday evening to promote awareness and suicide prevention.

As Outside Art paints murals on walls across the city of Plattsburgh, organizers of the latest project partnered with the Clinton County, New York Coalition to Prevent Suicide to send a profound message to residents and teenagers.

Dr. Jay Carruthers is Director of the Suicide Prevention Center of New York At New York State Office of Mental Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Albany Medical Center. September is Suicide Prevention Month, so we wanted to discuss this enormous public health problem and learn how New York State’s Office of Mental Health is responding.

The content of this interview may be upsetting for some listeners.Clancy Martin is an acclaimed author, Guggenheim Fellow, and professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University in New Delhi. He is also the survivor of more than ten suicide attempts. In the new book, “How Not to Kill Yourself,” Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts. The book is an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction.

The Vermont Department of Health and the Department of Mental Health are teaming up to launch a statewide suicide prevention effort.

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