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.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Denver Author Writes Local Bestseller
Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide makes The Denver Post Local Bestseller Nonfiction Paperback Book List. “This shows how important suicide acquaintance is to Coloradans,” says bounded author, Carrie Stark Hugus. “With September accepting National Suicide Prevention Month, the timing couldn’t be any better.”
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."
Crossing 13 is a advancing of age adventure about a thirteen-year-old babe whose activity is instantly adapted aloft award her ancestor asleep from suicide. As she rides the affecting after-effects of, shock, guilt, confusion, abashment and the attraction with WHY, she begins to embrace her new accustomed life. Through anniversary attempt you allotment her adventure of complicated affliction in the after-effects of a abrupt loss.
“Hugus does added than reminisce—she auspiciously assumes the persona of a babe adamant by the all-overs and amusing amateurishness accessory to the average academy years. Crossing 13 sails appropriate through the generational barrier; it is a abundant apparatus for starting a chat with a partly developed being who is activity added abandoned than anytime before,” says ForeWord CLARION Reviews.
“Crossing 13 is an accurate anniversary of a thirteen-year-old survivor of a father’s suicide. Carrie Stark Hugus writes candidly and courageously about her experience. Crossing 13 is an absurd book apropos to the contest afore and afterwards the suicide. Suicide is consistently a bad-tempered affair and Carrie Stark Hugus handles it with care,” by Neha Kashmiri, age 14, for Reader Views.
Carrie is a fourth bearing native, holds a B.A. in Public Relations from Ft. Lewis College in Durango, and has eighteen years acquaintance in business and association relations. She lives with her husband, two accouchement and dog in Highlands Ranch.
Look for Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide at Tattered Cover Book Store or online booksellers.
Published June 2008
LCCCN: 2008901380
ISBN 978-0-9815938-0-7
Size: 5.5 X 8.5
Pages: 120
Price: $12.95
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."
Crossing 13 is a advancing of age adventure about a thirteen-year-old babe whose activity is instantly adapted aloft award her ancestor asleep from suicide. As she rides the affecting after-effects of, shock, guilt, confusion, abashment and the attraction with WHY, she begins to embrace her new accustomed life. Through anniversary attempt you allotment her adventure of complicated affliction in the after-effects of a abrupt loss.
“Hugus does added than reminisce—she auspiciously assumes the persona of a babe adamant by the all-overs and amusing amateurishness accessory to the average academy years. Crossing 13 sails appropriate through the generational barrier; it is a abundant apparatus for starting a chat with a partly developed being who is activity added abandoned than anytime before,” says ForeWord CLARION Reviews.
“Crossing 13 is an accurate anniversary of a thirteen-year-old survivor of a father’s suicide. Carrie Stark Hugus writes candidly and courageously about her experience. Crossing 13 is an absurd book apropos to the contest afore and afterwards the suicide. Suicide is consistently a bad-tempered affair and Carrie Stark Hugus handles it with care,” by Neha Kashmiri, age 14, for Reader Views.
Carrie is a fourth bearing native, holds a B.A. in Public Relations from Ft. Lewis College in Durango, and has eighteen years acquaintance in business and association relations. She lives with her husband, two accouchement and dog in Highlands Ranch.
Look for Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide at Tattered Cover Book Store or online booksellers.
Published June 2008
LCCCN: 2008901380
ISBN 978-0-9815938-0-7
Size: 5.5 X 8.5
Pages: 120
Price: $12.95
Father’s Suicide Leads Woman on Mission to Spread Hope
Death is difficult to accord with in any form, but the afterlife of a parent, and even more, the suicide of your parent, can be devastating. Carrie Hugus recalls how she dealt with her father’s suicide if she was alone thirteen in her new book “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide” (ISBN 9780981593807, Affirm Publications, 2008).
Carrie Hugus was alone thirteen if she begin her ancestor in the barn afterwards he bashed himself. Instantly, she asked herself why she hadn’t accepted to stop him, why did it appear to her father, and what could she accept done differently? For years she lived with guilt, shame, abashing and an attraction with why. In “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” Carrie relives the experience, autograph in the articulation of her thirteen-year old self, but aswell with the angle of an developed analytic back. As she takes readers through her adventure of grief, she explores how accouchement ache and the accoutrement of suicide aloft ancestors members.
Because accouchement ache abnormally than adults and are beneath able to accurate their feelings, their affliction may go disregarded by ancestors associates and admired ones. A child’s changing affliction can accept abstruse accoutrement after in activity including difficulties with trust, problems with affectionate relationships, actuality abuse, and annex problems. As survivors of suicide, individuals are at a higher-risk of demography their own lives. By administration her adventure in “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” Hugus explores the accent of allowance accouchement to ache and cope with their losses.
Beyond her own story, Hugus provides assets about suicide including Grief Support Tips, a area on Understanding Suicide, and Facts and Statistics. Every year in the United States, an estimated 24,000 accouchement lose a ancestor to suicide—that’s over 700,000 accouchement in the endure thirty years who accept absent a parent, and 80% of them ache for a father. These children—many of them now adults—deserve support, compassionate and hope.
Hugus says of her memoir, “My achievement is that by administration my adventure with added adolescent adults accounting in their voice, added adolescent survivors may be added accessible to accurate their own grief, plan through their pain, consistent in beneath accident for approaching activity problems and/or suicide.” Hugus’s adventure is one of affecting after-effects of shock, guilt, confusion, abashment and attraction with why her ancestor dead himself. Through account Hugus’s story, readers accept the action of afflicted and how backbone lies on the added side. Hugus’s bulletin will bell with readers whether or not they accept absent a admired one, and it will accommodate an archetype of achievement for those disturbing over the after-effects of a suicide.
About the Author
A above business and communications executive, Carrie Stark Hugus is affiliated and the mother of two children. She is a Colorado built-in who lives with her ancestors and dog in Highlands Ranch. Carrie is a able apostle on the capacity of compassionate and abating a adolescent survivor of suicide and allowance adolescents with abrupt loss. Besides “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” she is the columnist of several life-skills account books for pre-school accouchement including “What Should I Be When I Grow Up?” and “Mamma, What Happens When We Die?”
“Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide” (ISBN 9780981593807, Affirm Publications, 2008) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.affirmpublications.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
Carrie Hugus was alone thirteen if she begin her ancestor in the barn afterwards he bashed himself. Instantly, she asked herself why she hadn’t accepted to stop him, why did it appear to her father, and what could she accept done differently? For years she lived with guilt, shame, abashing and an attraction with why. In “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” Carrie relives the experience, autograph in the articulation of her thirteen-year old self, but aswell with the angle of an developed analytic back. As she takes readers through her adventure of grief, she explores how accouchement ache and the accoutrement of suicide aloft ancestors members.
Because accouchement ache abnormally than adults and are beneath able to accurate their feelings, their affliction may go disregarded by ancestors associates and admired ones. A child’s changing affliction can accept abstruse accoutrement after in activity including difficulties with trust, problems with affectionate relationships, actuality abuse, and annex problems. As survivors of suicide, individuals are at a higher-risk of demography their own lives. By administration her adventure in “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” Hugus explores the accent of allowance accouchement to ache and cope with their losses.
Beyond her own story, Hugus provides assets about suicide including Grief Support Tips, a area on Understanding Suicide, and Facts and Statistics. Every year in the United States, an estimated 24,000 accouchement lose a ancestor to suicide—that’s over 700,000 accouchement in the endure thirty years who accept absent a parent, and 80% of them ache for a father. These children—many of them now adults—deserve support, compassionate and hope.
Hugus says of her memoir, “My achievement is that by administration my adventure with added adolescent adults accounting in their voice, added adolescent survivors may be added accessible to accurate their own grief, plan through their pain, consistent in beneath accident for approaching activity problems and/or suicide.” Hugus’s adventure is one of affecting after-effects of shock, guilt, confusion, abashment and attraction with why her ancestor dead himself. Through account Hugus’s story, readers accept the action of afflicted and how backbone lies on the added side. Hugus’s bulletin will bell with readers whether or not they accept absent a admired one, and it will accommodate an archetype of achievement for those disturbing over the after-effects of a suicide.
About the Author
A above business and communications executive, Carrie Stark Hugus is affiliated and the mother of two children. She is a Colorado built-in who lives with her ancestors and dog in Highlands Ranch. Carrie is a able apostle on the capacity of compassionate and abating a adolescent survivor of suicide and allowance adolescents with abrupt loss. Besides “Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide,” she is the columnist of several life-skills account books for pre-school accouchement including “What Should I Be When I Grow Up?” and “Mamma, What Happens When We Die?”
“Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide” (ISBN 9780981593807, Affirm Publications, 2008) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.affirmpublications.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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