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Let's Get Healthy California

Let’s Get Healthy California provides an ongoing statewide collaborative and systematic approach for assessing and monitoring the health status of California, identifying and prioritizing opportunities for health improvement and promoting collective action towards comprehensive solutions that address the root causes of California’s toughest health challenges.

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Paper Tigers

Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of a high school that has radically changed it's approach to disciplining its students, becoming a model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affects families.

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Idaho Harm Reduction Project

Idaho Harm Reduction Project works to serve the drug using community of Idaho, as well as the general public by creating safe communities through evidence based programming, education, needle exchange and appropriate needle disposal.

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Working with Miss Idaho USA, Hannah Menzner

The Speedy Foundation is so excited and honored to announce our partnership with Hannah Menzner, the newly crowned Miss Idaho USA. Her deep passion for mental health stemmed from her experience volunteering for a crisis hotline, and she has since founded Project IdaHOPE to teach Idahoans to spot suicide warning signs and risk factors. We look forward to working alongside her as she continues her campaign for suicide awareness, and can’t wait to see the wonderful things she has in store this year!

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Breaking Point

According to CDC data, mountain destination mecca Wyoming has the highest suicide mortality rate in the country. Since 2015, states in the Interior West—Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho—have all also consistently ranked in the top ten for suicide death. The data is so marked that the Rocky Mountain states have been dubbed “the Suicide Belt.”

Why? The reasons are complicated and multifold.

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Suicide: When Someone is Too Bruised to be Touched

There is the horrific shock of losing a loved one so suddenly which, just of itself, can bring us to our knees; but, with suicide, there are other soul-wrenching feelings too, confusion, guilt, second-guessing, religious anxiety. Where did we fail this person? What might we still have done? What should we have noticed? What is this person’s state with God?

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World Mental Health Day 2021

On World Mental Health Day we encourage you to take a mental health screening. Online screening is one of the quickest and easiest ways to determine whether you are experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition or at least familiarize yourself with it for use when needed in the future.

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CDP Presents - Resources

In this 90-minute webinar, participants will learn more about suicide prevention efforts as it relates to elite athletes and those in high-performance roles. The session will highlight the unique risk and protective factors for those in high-performance positions. In addition, this webinar will briefly identify therapeutic approaches effective in the management and treatment of individuals at risk for suicide.

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Breakout Session: Idaho Safety and Resilience Conference 2021

Know the Signs is a statewide suicide prevention social marketing campaign built on three key messages: Know the signs. Find the words. Reach out. This campaign is intended to educate community members on recognizing the warning signs of suicide, finding the words to have a direct conversation with someone in crisis, and finding professional help and resources.

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National Day of Service 2021

One hour of your time can mean a lifetime for another. This service opportunity is a 60-minute on-demand, online QPR gatekeeper training. By educating yourself, you'll be better able to serve others.

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