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NOW IT MATTERS MORE THAN EVER
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COVER STORY
While some experts report that the world is actually better off than at any time in the past (according to Our World in Data, the world is better off in terms of poverty, literacy, health, freedom and education), it can be hard to believe when television, radio and social media shout negative news on a constant basis. It is not an exaggeration to say that millions of people of all ages and backgrounds (mostly in the United States and Canada) remember.
SIMPLE
He may not be as popular as Fred Rogers - yet - but his work has quite a following. Each of us needs 'at least one' such person as we grow up," he says.
SERVICE
THESE ARE THE MOST
COLOMBIAN SOCIETY.”
At both locations, families entertained their visitors with cultural shows, wearing regional costumes and dancing. Collier County on Florida's Gulf Coast is one of the wealthiest areas in America, yet hundreds of children are homeless. For the third year in a row, nine Florida District clubs hosted a children's Christmas in July.
We were able to get backpacks, school supplies, toiletries and specific sneakers, pants, shirts and undergarments to 150 of the 589 kids,” says Bill Ricigliano, a member of the Naples Northside Kiwanis Club who helped organize the the original July holiday.
HOME SAFE HOME
SECONDS
Twenty-five years earlier, my younger sister Denise ended her life just three weeks before her 18th birthday. Instead, I found myself repeatedly asking, "Why?" for the rest of my undergraduate years. I didn't understand why my sister ended her life, especially when she was about to go to college, at a time when I believed the world was becoming a man's oyster. But she was plagued by depression, bulimia, and date rape, which I only learned about after her death.
I was left to pick up the pieces and find my way forward again without the girl I shared a room with for 10 years - the girl who knew more about me than anyone else.
SECONDS SOMEONE TAKES THEIR LIFE
According to the American Suicide Squad, in the United States in 2016, the most recent year data is available, 44,965 people died by suicide. According to the World Health Organization, about 800,000 people die by suicide each year; roughly someone every 40 seconds. Peter Gutierrez, a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, believes that change must come from focusing on it as a public health problem rather than a mental health problem.
The latest (Centers for Disease Control) report documents that just under half of people who die by suicide had a mental health problem," he says.
THE RECENT CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL REPORT DOCUMENTS THAT
I have traveled to many corners of the world, including the beaches of the South Pacific in Australia, the Indian reservations in New Mexico and the pueblos where I now live, and have done extensive media interviews. Peter Gutierrez, a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, believes the change must come from focusing on it as a public health issue rather than a mental one.
WHO DIE BY SUICIDE HAD A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM.”
And it's sad to hear when a young person dies by suicide because of bullying. Robert Gebbia, the executive director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, believes the numbers will eventually start to drop because of exposure to the topic. According to the CDC, November and December are the months with the fewest suicides.
McIntosh points out that statistics show that suicide deaths are highest in spring, not winter as most people believe.
EVERYONE CAN DO SMALL THINGS EVERY
It is possible that more people experience stress or even depression during the winter months and holidays, but this depression does not increase the number of suicides. There are some issues related to depression and when it comes on — it goes up or down — that obviously aren't as distinct as the timing of someone's suicide," he says. The best thing you can do is be direct: Ask the person if he or she feels suicidal.
Everyone can do small things every day to increase their sense of connection with others, like regularly asking people how they are and listening to their responses,” says Gutierrez.
SENSE OF CONNECTION WITH OTHERS.”
When people say they are not doing well, struggle with problems or give other indicators that something is wrong, we need to be able to hear that and respond with empathy and concern." It's not just about educating people about how to prevent suicide and where to go for help. It is also about supporting the survivors - those who attempted suicide and lived and the bereaved, the people left behind after a suicide - to ensure that they do not also become suicide statistics.
It would fluctuate, but it was always in the back of my mind: 'If things get really bad, I can always kill myself.' the right opportunity to kill yourself.”
WARNING SIGNS OF SUICIDE
I hated myself with every fiber of my being and had thought about dying or killing myself for as long as I could remember,' she says. Looking for ways to commit suicide by seeking access to firearms, available pills or other means.
RESOURCES
I consider my chronic suicidality as a chronic illness, so I try to maintain my health,” she says. It's a journey of searching for answers while grieving the loss of a loved one and reconciling the life you lived with the way that life ended. A step forward in one's grieving process is to separate the end of life from the life one has lived.
After a suicide, working with children – who in the past were often not informed of a loved one's suicide for fear that they would not understand it or perhaps end their lives as well – has had this impact.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO TELL CHILDREN THE
They often have to tell the story over and over until they realize that the answer they're looking for will probably never come. It's important to tell children the truth about suicide in an age-appropriate way, and you can add details when they ask or as they get older."
TRUTH ABOUT SUICIDE IN A WAY THAT IS AGE-
THEY ASK OR AS THEY GET OLDER.”
1,504 Building on the five-year Formula membership initiative and supported by a renewed focus on organizing new clubs, Kiwanis finished 2017-18 with 191,439 members worldwide – an increase of 1,504 women and men who now carry the "K" badge. ” as they serve the children of the world. Many Kiwanis leaders have worked very hard to maintain and improve our efforts around the world,” he says. In the following pages, we help Rochford recognize Eye of the Tiger team members who have led by example and helped usher in a new generation of clubs.
At the beginning of the year, I could count on one hand the number of people who could open a club in two days in a community they had never been to.
GROWING AGAIN
3 Las Vegas, Nevada has one of the world's largest Key Club populations with more than 3,000 high school students. His Eye of the Tiger club opening specialists came into Chicago, Denver, Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere to visit educators, mayors, business leaders and other community leaders to sell the need for new Kiwanis clubs. Val Brown-Klingelhoefer was one of the Tiger team members sent to Vegas early to prepare for the blitz.
This past January 19-21, the Eye of the Tiger team, accompanied by half of North America's district governors, arrived in Vegas.
BLITZED
Vegas' strong Service Leadership programs were a major reason 2017-18 Kiwanis International President Jim Rochford chose the city for one. In Vegas, they intended to open three clubs, seeding each with double members from existing clubs as coaches.
THE RACE IS ON
Three months into the 2017-18 Kiwanis year, Emilia stepped in as the leader of the Eye of the Tiger in Latin America, and she hit the ground running. She guided the effort to open more than half of the 26 clubs opened in Latin America last year. Because of her sales skills and her people skills, she was asked to join the Eye of the Tiger team.
He is a mainstay of the Michigan District membership team and continues to improve his skills as an Eye of the Tiger leader.
ALL STARS
This past year, he served double duty as chairman of Eye of the Tiger and chairman of The Formula for the Western America region. He has quickly become one of the most consistent new club openers in the Kiwanis world,” said Rochford. In addition to touring the world opening clubs, Barb served as vice president of the Eye of the Tiger team.
Prior to the 2017-18 year, Jim helped assemble and train the Eye of the Tiger leadership team.
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