National Suicide Prevention Week Awareness Panel

Suicide Prevention Week (September 7 – 13, 2008) is a civic accident angry to World Suicide Prevention day to accession acquaintance about suicide and baleful behaviors and to bless the efforts of all who are alive to anticipate suicide.

Carrie Stark Hugus, bounded columnist of Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide, knows the aftereffect of suicide a allotment of Coloradans. During National Suicide Prevention Week (September 7 – 13) Hugus and a console of experts will altercate the appulse of suicide on Colorado. After, Hugus will assurance her book, a coming-of-age adventure about loss, affliction and survival. Suicide Prevention Panel:

• Jarrod Hindman, Office of Suicide Prevention, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

• Bob Burnside, The Suicide Prevention Implementation Network (SPIN)

• Dale and Dar Emme, Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program.

When: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at Tattered Cover Book Store, Highlands Ranch from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colorado has the seventh accomplished suicide afterlife amount in the United States. Jarrod Hindman, administrator of the department's Office of Suicide Prevention, said, "More humans in Colorado die by suicide than by motor car crashes, and suicide is the additional arch could cause of afterlife for Coloradans ages 10 through 34. With added than 30,000 deaths nationally anniversary year, suicide is a accessible bloom affair that impacts everyone."

Suicide is the 11th arch could cause of afterlife in the United States with one suicide occurring on boilerplate every 16 minutes. Suicide is the 3rd arch could cause of afterlife a allotment of 15- to 24-years-olds. The aged accomplish up 12.4% of the population, but comprise 16% of all suicides. Approximately 811,000 Americans attack suicide anniversary year. It is estimated that 5 actor active Americans accept attempted to annihilate themselves.

Every year in the United States, added than 17,000 men and women annihilate themselves with a gun; two-thirds added than the amount who use a gun to annihilate addition person. An estimated 5 actor Americans are survivors of the suicide of a friend, ancestors member, or admired one.