NH group updates suicide prevention plan
By Jillian Jorgensen
jjorgensen@eagletribune.com
A state group has revised its plan for suicide prevention, bringing together public agencies and private organizations in an effort to raise awareness and help prevent suicide in New Hampshire.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death, after accidental injury, among New Hampshire residents younger than 34. It is the fourth-leading cause of death in adults 34 to 55.
"You can have people sit in an office and write a great document, but if it's not carried out, it's not worth the ink that it's written in," said Elaine de Mello, supervisor of training and prevention at National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire and a member of the Suicide Prevention Council. "The revision shows that people are looking at it, and thinking about it."
This is the first revision to the plan since it was created in 2004. The plan updates were made by the state's Suicide Prevention Council, made up of representatives from state agencies and nonprofit groups, as well as politicians, medical professionals and others.
Funding for the council's initiatives come from grants and from the agencies that make up the council and follow the plan's guidelines for dealing with and preventing suicide.
The plan's goals include reaching out to agencies from corrections facilities to schools to help officials around the state be more prepared to deal with suicidal people or the aftermath of a suicide. Many of those organizations have representatives on the council.
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NH group updates suicide prevention plan
Monday, January 18, 2010
Familiar face answers the call for veterans
Familiar face answers the call for veterans
Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of Governor’s Outreach Center, to aid vets as volunteer.
BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com
The Veterans of Vietnam War and Veterans Coalition have a new person, but hardly a trainee, helping out in a volunteer capacity.
FRED ADAMS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of the Governor’s Outreach Assistance Center, is donating her time at the office on the Pittston Bypass to do what she does best – help veterans.
A Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam era, Gonzalez said she wants to finish what she left incomplete when the outreach assistance center closed because of state budget cutbacks.
“Suddenly, with little notice, I had to leave my office, and in my eyes, abandon all the veterans that I always took care of – the veterans who came to me for help,” Gonzalez said.
“They came to me one after another for all the problems and issues facing today’s American veteran, whether they be World War II, Korea, Vietnam, peacetime and especially -- our new young brave veterans of today -- our veterans who’ve been coming home from multi-tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Familiar face answers the call for veterans
Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of Governor’s Outreach Center, to aid vets as volunteer.
BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com
The Veterans of Vietnam War and Veterans Coalition have a new person, but hardly a trainee, helping out in a volunteer capacity.
FRED ADAMS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
Ruth Gonzalez, formerly of the Governor’s Outreach Assistance Center, is donating her time at the office on the Pittston Bypass to do what she does best – help veterans.
A Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam era, Gonzalez said she wants to finish what she left incomplete when the outreach assistance center closed because of state budget cutbacks.
“Suddenly, with little notice, I had to leave my office, and in my eyes, abandon all the veterans that I always took care of – the veterans who came to me for help,” Gonzalez said.
“They came to me one after another for all the problems and issues facing today’s American veteran, whether they be World War II, Korea, Vietnam, peacetime and especially -- our new young brave veterans of today -- our veterans who’ve been coming home from multi-tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Familiar face answers the call for veterans
Marine's walk for DAV worth $180,000, so far
He's marching for disabled veterans
Retired Marine Richard Hunsucker is on a 2,650-mile journey across the country
By JENNIFER LATSON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jan. 17, 2010, 10:52PM
As marathon runners began their 26-mile tour of Houston on Sunday morning, Richard Hunsucker set out on a quieter trek of his own, east of the city.
A few miles outside Liberty, Hunsucker pulled on a no-frills pair of white Nikes and hoisted a flagpole over his right shoulder. Then he set out on Highway 90 for a 17-mile leg of his 2,650-mile journey.
Hunsucker, a 52-year-old ironworker and retired Marine from Green Bay, Wis., is walking across the southern United States to raise money for disabled veterans. He started in Jacksonville on Veterans Day and expects to finish in San Diego on Memorial Day.
Lunchtime on day 68 found him crossing the Trinity River in Liberty, 849 miles down and 1,801 to go. The bridge rumbled underfoot as traffic hurtled past at 70 mph. Wearing jeans and a red Marine Corps T-shirt over white long underwear, Hunsucker marched at a determined pace along the shoulder. The blue Disabled American Veterans flag whipped in the wind. A trio of motorcyclists waved as they passed.
Hunsucker came late to Vietnam, serving with the Marines from 1974 to 1976 in Okinawa, which had been a key American staging point in the Vietnam War. His older brother served in the war, as did several of his friends. Helping veterans is a cause close to his heart.
Retired Marine Richard Hunsucker is on a 2,650-mile journey across the country
By JENNIFER LATSON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jan. 17, 2010, 10:52PM
As marathon runners began their 26-mile tour of Houston on Sunday morning, Richard Hunsucker set out on a quieter trek of his own, east of the city.
A few miles outside Liberty, Hunsucker pulled on a no-frills pair of white Nikes and hoisted a flagpole over his right shoulder. Then he set out on Highway 90 for a 17-mile leg of his 2,650-mile journey.
Hunsucker, a 52-year-old ironworker and retired Marine from Green Bay, Wis., is walking across the southern United States to raise money for disabled veterans. He started in Jacksonville on Veterans Day and expects to finish in San Diego on Memorial Day.
Lunchtime on day 68 found him crossing the Trinity River in Liberty, 849 miles down and 1,801 to go. The bridge rumbled underfoot as traffic hurtled past at 70 mph. Wearing jeans and a red Marine Corps T-shirt over white long underwear, Hunsucker marched at a determined pace along the shoulder. The blue Disabled American Veterans flag whipped in the wind. A trio of motorcyclists waved as they passed.
Hunsucker came late to Vietnam, serving with the Marines from 1974 to 1976 in Okinawa, which had been a key American staging point in the Vietnam War. His older brother served in the war, as did several of his friends. Helping veterans is a cause close to his heart.
The flag draws curiosity and offers of help. Benefactors have given him regular meals and occasional offers of shelter for the night. Above all, they've given donations to his cause, the nonprofit organization Disabled American Veterans. He's gotten $180,000 in pledges so far, he said.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6820947.html
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Florida DCF, Red Cross help 180 Haiti evacuees arriving at Sanford airport
DCF, Red Cross help 180 Haiti evacuees arriving at Sanford airport
By Susan Jacobson and Anika Myers Palm
Orlando Sentinel
2:55 a.m. EST, January 17, 2010
Dr. Manoucheka Vieux doesn't know if she'll ever see her husband again.
A police inspector in Haiti, he never came home after Tuesday's devastating earthquake, and she hasn't been able to reach him since.
Fearful that disease from decomposing bodies in Haiti would harm their 10-month-old son, Chrys Valin, Vieux, a general practitioner, fled to Central Florida on Saturday with her baby. She was one of 180 people who landed at Orlando Sanford International Airport just after 5 p.m. on a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport airplane.
More than six hours later, Vieux was settling into a room at the Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel and recounting her ordeal. Her immediate plan was to fly to South Florida today to stay with her sister. Beyond that, "I don't know," an exhausted Vieux said. "I just want to see my baby safe. I'm living with hope to see my husband again."
Vieux and the other passengers received free hotel stays courtesy of the state Department of Children and Families, which also helped them connect with family and friends in the U.S. The American Red Cross was among the other agencies that assisted the evacuees, including a handful of people who left the airplane in wheelchairs.
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180 Haiti evacuees arriving at Sanford airport
also
Exclusive Haiti Earthquake Video
Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:50:29 AM
ORLANDO -- Central Florida got a unique view of the deadly earthquake in Haiti from right in the middle of it all.
News 13’s Christine Webb and the Orlando-based New Missions outreach group were stranded in the country after the quake hit Tuesday.
A New Missions videographer caught the quake as it was happening. The video was taken at the New Missions headquarters in Haiti southeast of Port-au-Prince.
The group, which also included several high school students from The First Academy, evacuated Haiti Friday, and flew into Orlando International Airport just after midnight Saturday. Christine and her fellow mission volunteers said they were grateful to be home.
Exclusive Haiti Earthquake Video
By Susan Jacobson and Anika Myers Palm
Orlando Sentinel
2:55 a.m. EST, January 17, 2010
Dr. Manoucheka Vieux doesn't know if she'll ever see her husband again.
A police inspector in Haiti, he never came home after Tuesday's devastating earthquake, and she hasn't been able to reach him since.
Fearful that disease from decomposing bodies in Haiti would harm their 10-month-old son, Chrys Valin, Vieux, a general practitioner, fled to Central Florida on Saturday with her baby. She was one of 180 people who landed at Orlando Sanford International Airport just after 5 p.m. on a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport airplane.
More than six hours later, Vieux was settling into a room at the Renaissance Orlando Airport Hotel and recounting her ordeal. Her immediate plan was to fly to South Florida today to stay with her sister. Beyond that, "I don't know," an exhausted Vieux said. "I just want to see my baby safe. I'm living with hope to see my husband again."
Vieux and the other passengers received free hotel stays courtesy of the state Department of Children and Families, which also helped them connect with family and friends in the U.S. The American Red Cross was among the other agencies that assisted the evacuees, including a handful of people who left the airplane in wheelchairs.
read more here
180 Haiti evacuees arriving at Sanford airport
also
Exclusive Haiti Earthquake Video
Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:50:29 AM
ORLANDO -- Central Florida got a unique view of the deadly earthquake in Haiti from right in the middle of it all.
News 13’s Christine Webb and the Orlando-based New Missions outreach group were stranded in the country after the quake hit Tuesday.
A New Missions videographer caught the quake as it was happening. The video was taken at the New Missions headquarters in Haiti southeast of Port-au-Prince.
The group, which also included several high school students from The First Academy, evacuated Haiti Friday, and flew into Orlando International Airport just after midnight Saturday. Christine and her fellow mission volunteers said they were grateful to be home.
Exclusive Haiti Earthquake Video
Bigger Army necessary
During all other wars up to the Vietnam War, when the nation's leaders said "go to war" everyone had to do their part. So how is it with two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has not been a massive push to at least get more to enlist if they do not want to start the draft again? If they are waiting for a crisis, they missed it a long time ago. These wars are not the wars of the American people when most have not been paying attention to either one. The risks, the issues, the price being paid, have not been personal to any of us as fewer and fewer news reports come out. The burden is not shared by the rest of us and they have to pay the price for what we ask of them.
Bigger Army necessary
Editorial
Posted : Sunday Jan 17, 2010 8:51:00 EST
The Army on three occasions over the past five years has increased active-duty end-strength to meet ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lesson learned: The Army was too small to simultaneously fight on two fronts. That took an incredible toll on troops and their families, who endured multiple war tours of up to 15 months at a stretch. Others paid for it by being forced to serve on “stop-loss” beyond their terms of obligated service. Meanwhile, getting the Army closer to the right size cost billions and took years.
The addition of a total of 65,000 soldiers resulted in today’s authorized end-strength of 547,400 in uniform. In July, Congress has authorized yet another temporary increase, of 22,000 troops.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/army_casey_011710w/
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