Regional
Suicide Prevention Partnership
Representatives from an eight
county region of Indiana, including
Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren
and White counties continue to meet to learn more about suicide prevention and to
build a Regional Suicide Prevention Partnership. Please join us to help prevent suicide.
Elderly suicide is a very serious problem. Although the elderly (age 65
and older) comprise about 13% of the U.S. population, they account for
over 18% of all suicides.
The most common cause for elderly suicide, as for all suicides, is
untreated depression. Thus, elderly depression needs to be recognized and
treated.
And about one third of the seniors who are 65 or older experience
depression.
The next Regional
Suicide Prevention Partnership Seminar will be:
Topic: to be announced
Social Workers: This workshop is
approved for Category I Continuing Education, granted by the Indiana
Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist, and Mental Health Counselor
Board. This provides two hours of Category I Continuing Education for the
following: LSW, LCSW, LMFT, and LMHC.
Nurses: This workshop is approved
for 2.2 contact hours for nurses, granted by Purdue University Continuing
Nursing Education. Purdue School of Nursing has been approved as a
provider in continuing education by the Indiana State Nurses' Association,
which is accredited as an approver of continuing education by the American
Nurses Association Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
Please bring your nursing license number with you the day of the
conference in order to complete the contact hour form.
Attendance is free
(donations accepted), but we do ask that
you
RSVP by ____,
2005 below
to help us plan space.
The next Steering Committee Meeting will be:
to be announced
at the Crisis Center (1244 N. 15th
Street) in Lafayette.
If you would like to serve on the steering committee, please join us.
Your energy, interest and input would be most welcomed.