Two high school students, a middle aged adult male, a veteran, and an older adult were in such a hopeless place that each took his or her life. Our experience that year was five times the national average. This cannot stand. For each attempted suicide and each completed suicide, many lives are affected.
According to The Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Guidelines, 115 people are affected by each suicide. We know that in a community like Davidson, the single greatest barrier to mental health services is stigma. What will people think? What's wrong with my family? I must be the only one. The truth is far different.
According to The Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Guidelines, 115 people are affected by each suicide. We know that in a community like Davidson, the single greatest barrier to mental health services is stigma. What will people think? What's wrong with my family? I must be the only one. The truth is far different.
Services
In the wake of the devastating suicides and suicide attempts of 2012, Mayor John Woods gathered town leaders, while concerned parents had meetings of their own-Why here? Why now? And, most importantly, what can we do? From those first meetings of concerned and worried community members, Davidson LifeLine launched.
During the spring and summer of 2013, a clinical psychiatrist, with expertise in facilitating focus groups, met with key stakeholder groups: high school students, parents, mental health professionals, clergy, and school administrators. Provision of education through speakers, seminars, dissemination of written materials and through social media.
As a mental health awareness and anti-stigma messaging organization, Davidson LifeLine is unable to provide individual or emergency care for people in crisis. If you are in need of urgent support please call the National Suicide Prevention LifeLine - or visit their website - suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
QPR is a 90-minute training, created by the QPR Institute for Suicide Prevention, to assist with suicide prevention education. QPR training provides three simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.Davidson LifeLine, in partnership with the Mental Health Association of the Central Carolinas, offers QPR quarterly through the Town of Davidson Parks & Rec at no cost.
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.Davidson LifeLine, in partnership with the Mental Health Association of the Central Carolinas, offers QPR quarterly through the Town of Davidson Parks & Rec at no cost.
The help line, staffed by master's level mental health professionals and registered nurses, offers crisis intervention 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The staff can also provide assessments for psychiatric and substance use disorder treatment, make referrals to behavioral health specialists and offer information on community behavioral health resources.
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