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| What we currently know on Guam: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For each statistical number documented about suicide attempts and suicide on Guam, we must always keep in mind that each number is about a person; a person with a family, friends, co-workers, classmates and acquaintances. That person had a story about his or her life, the places of education, work, travel, and lived. These individual stories can provide opportunities for us to learn some of the answers to the What, Why, Who, Where and When questions and perhaps in research, help us to prevent additional suicides from occurring.
Guam endures a disturbingly high rate of suicide among its youth and adult population. The Guam Police Department (GPD) reported unofficially that for the months of January 1, 2007 through November 30, 2007, twenty-nine (29) deaths by suicide and sixty-one (61) attempts were investigated. Guam’s rate of suicide peaked at 28.2 per 100,000 in 1999. In general, the rates of suicide in Guam averaged 19.7 per 100,000 persons over the age of 10 years, from 1997 to 2007 (DPHSS, Guam). The results of the 2007 Guam High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicated that girls were more likely than boys to have had suicidal ideations (28.0% vs. 16.6%), a suicide plan (27.5% vs. 15.9%), or made suicide attempts (21.3% vs. 12.2%). Chamorro students had the highest percentage (34.0%) of actual attempts of suicide, followed by 28.8% of students with multiple ethnicities, and Filipino students at 13.6%. |
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| Life Works Guam: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Suicide Prevention Program and Rainbows for All Children Guam Contact: Marie Virata Halloran Phone: 671-632-0257 |
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| University of Guam, I Pinangon, Campus Suicide Prevention Program Phone: 671-735-2888/9 Address: I Pinangon Campus Suicide Prevention Program Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923 Email: i_pinangon@yahoo.com Website: http://www.uogsuicideprevention.org |
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| Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse, Prevention & Training Branch Phone: 671-477-9079 thru 9083 Web site: www.peaceguam.org Crisis Hotline: 671-647-8833 |
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| National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: www.suicideprevenitonlifeline.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SPAN USA Network: www.spanusa.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SAMHSA: www.samhsa.gov/matrix2/matrix_suicide.aspx/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Suicide Prevention Resource Center: www.sprc.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introducing the Suicide Prevention Education Awareness Kit (SPEAK): An information kit for the public, health care providers and educators to help them understand the terrible frequency and toll of suicide, and to discover methods to aid in preventing it. For more information, visit: www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/speak/index.htm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Glendon Association: www.glendon.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American Association of Suicidology: www.suicidology.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: www.afsp.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The National Help Line: 1-800-SUICIDE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Copyright 2008. Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. All Rights Reserved. |