How the CRT helped prevent a suicide (News on 6) Tulsa is losing precious lives to suicide and untreated mental illness. We have one of the nation’s highest rates of mental illness and rank 15th for suicide. State funding for mental healthcare has declined resulting in under-resourced early intervention and treatment options. The launch of…
On Saturday, Sept. 2, our COPES team joined thousands of fans at ONEOK Field. As the stadium began to fill up, our team was setting up to bring awareness to those attending the Drillers Game. On the concourse, fans were searching for hotdogs, popcorn and cotton candy. What they didn’t realize, is they would also…
As the Associate Chief Program Officer for Family & Children’s Services Crisis Services, I work in suicide prevention and have been filled with concern about the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why since the show began a few weeks ago. The series centers on a high school teenager who takes her own life and explains her…
Did you know that suicides tend to rise in the spring and summer? Strange as it may sound, one reason is warm weather. Deborah Serani writes in Scientific America that when depressed people don’t find that their life’s trajectories are aligning with a season that is supposed to be about happiness and renewal, it can make…
