Tag: Community care

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Suicide rate for Native American women is up 139% – USA TodayJune 22, 2019Suicide rates in the US are rising, and have increased 33% since 1999: this is significant. However, Native […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Why doctors are leery about seeking mental health care for themselves – Washington Post Jan. 7, 2017 A recent survey of 2,000 American physicians showed that about half of those surveyed […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Featured: Experts not surprised by suicide stats – Regina Leader-Post Dec. 19, 2016 CSP Trainer Donna Bowyer was interviewed for this piece in the Regina Leader-Post, which highlighted a survey done […]

Centre for Suicide Prevention would like to congratulate the Western Hockey League (WHL) on becoming suicide prevention champions with the Talk Today program, an initiative of Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Ontario, and now CMHA BC and Alberta. The Talk Today program trains every WHL player and some team staff members such as coaches in suicide […]