{"id":15820,"date":"2017-09-11T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=15820"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:24:09","slug":"suicide-prevention-week","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/suicide-prevention-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Prevention Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Suicide Prevention Week is September 10-16. Suicide is a tragedy that touches the lives of many families. Each year <span id=\"suiDeaths\">44,193 <\/span>Americans die by suicide. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/afsp.org\/campaigns\/national-suicide-prevention-week-2017\/\">American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a>&#8216;s website for ideas on what you can do: Find a walk near you, advocate for suicide prevention, share on social media, take care of yourself and your community, have a conversation with your children.<\/p>\n<p>Join a Twitter chat on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:00 to 11:00 Pacific Time, using the hashtag #stopsuicide.<\/p>\n<p>The American Foundation for Suicide also has local chapters, information on how to have a conversation about suicide, crisis negotiation information, resources for college mental health and Latinos and mental health, and information for survivors.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington State, gun dealers, pharmacists and suicide prevention advocates have partnered in a program to save lives. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intheforefront.org\/\">Forefront Suicide Prevention<\/a> is an awareness campaign which will offer training to healthcare providers, gun dealers, firearm safety instructors and pharmacists in how to recognize and respond to suicide warning signs.<\/p>\n<p>Education and awareness play a big role suicide prevention, and everyone in the community has a role to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Suicide Prevention Week is September 10-16. Suicide is a tragedy that touches the lives of many families. Each year 44,193 Americans die by suicide. See the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention&#8216;s website for ideas on what you can do: Find a walk near you, advocate for suicide prevention, share on social media, take care&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/suicide-prevention-week\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15820","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-health-literacy","category-health-observances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}