Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory Blog: September 2006

Friday, September 29, 2006

HTML, XML Sitemaps, RSS, Research, News

HTML and XML sitemaps were created in addition to a RSS feed. Also, 46 new resources, and site descriptions, were added to the Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory in, primarily, the following categories:

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Guides and Directories » Guides

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Asia

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Europe

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » North America

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Oceania

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Research » Evidence-Based

According to Webalizer Version 2.01, since the beginning of July 2006, the Suicide Prevention Help site and directory, have received 140,194 hits, 8,444, visits and 67,303 page views from the following countries and sectors:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia (Hrvatska), Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Non-Profit Organizations, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uraguay, US Commercial and the US Military.

Total Categories: 117
Total Links: 1471

Friday, September 15, 2006

Crisis Centers, News, Support Groups

kenneth Hemmerick's Scanned Flowers in support of Suicide Prevention - Nasturtium

An additional 69 new resources, and site descriptions, were added to the Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory in, primarily, the following categories:

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Crisis Centers » Europe

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Asia

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Europe

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » North America

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » News » Oceania

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Support Groups » Asia

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Support Groups » Europe

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Support Groups » North America

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Support Groups » Oceania

According to Webalizer Version 2.01, since the beginning of July 2006, the Suicide Prevention Help site and directory, have received 114,809 hits, 7,553, visits and 42,445 page views from the following countries and sectors:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia (Hrvatska), Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Non-Profit Organizations, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uraguay, US Commercial and the US Military.

Total Categories: 117
Total Links: 1425

Monday, September 11, 2006

World Suicide Prevention Day, Statistics, News, Crisis Centers

kenneth Hemmerick's Scanned Flowers in support of Suicide Prevention.

IASP Banner - World Suicide Prevention Day 2006.

INTERNATIONAL (WORLD) SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY

The International Association for Suicide Prevention holds, in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO), a World Suicide Prevention Day. Throughout the world, conferences, walks, lectures, fund-raisers and consciousness-raising and other awareness events are being held not only on September 10, 2006 but throughout the month of September.

The WHO reports that:

In the year 2000, approximately one million people died from suicide: a "global" mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds.

In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide. Suicide is now among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years (both sexes); these figures do not include suicide attempts up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicide.

Suicide worldwide is estimated to represent 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in 1998, and 2.4% in countries with market and former socialist economies in 2020.

Although traditionally suicide rates have been highest among the male elderly, rates among young people have been increasing to such an extent that they are now the group at highest risk in a third of countries, in both developed and developing countries.

Mental disorders (particularly depression and substance abuse) are associated with more than 90% of all cases of suicide; however, suicide results from many complex sociocultural factors and is more likely to occur particularly during periods of socioeconomic, family and individual crisis situations (e.g. loss of a loved one, employment, honour).

Browse this directory to see suicide statistics, listed by country.

What can one do to help?

Take any threat of suicide seriously.
Find support resources in helping someone who is suicidal.
Offer gentle, caring support to a person contemplating suicide and remember to follow up. Sometimes despairing feeling abate when talking with a loved one, but re-appear after the caring friend or family member is away.
Encourage the loved one to call a crisis center.
Show your loved one The Friendship Letter.
Support local crisis, distress or suicide prevention centers through volunteering or making a donation. These groups usually run on a shoe-string budget.
Encourage local, state or provincial, and national governments to take initiative in developing a suicide prevention strategy.

According to Webalizer Version 2.01, since the beginning of July 2006, the Suicide Prevention Help site and directory, have received 108,102 hits and 7,029 visits from the following countries and sectors:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia (Hrvatska), Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Non-Profit Organizations, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uraguay, US Commercial and the US Military.

Total Categories: 117
Total Links: 1356

Friday, September 08, 2006

Groups at Risk, Guides, Mental Health Issues, News

Monday, September 04, 2006

Groups at Risk, Education and Training

Friday, September 01, 2006

Crisis Centers, Government Initiatives, The Bullied, Inmates, Teens and Young Adults

Kenneth Hemmerick Scanned Flowers Series - Nasturtium

A new Groups at Risk category was created called Inmates. An additional 56 new resources, and site descriptions, were added to the Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory in, primarily, the following categories:

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Crisis Centers » North America » Canada

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Government Initiatives » North America

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Groups at Risk » Bullied, The

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Groups at Risk » Inmates

Suicide Prevention Help - Global Web Directory » Teens and Young Adults

Total Categories: 118
Total Links: 1086

According to Webalizer Version 2.01, since the beginning of July 2006, the Suicide Prevention Help site and directory, have received 77,687 hits and 5,906 visits from the following countries and sectors:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia (Hrvatska), Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Non-Profit Organizations, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, US Commercial and the US Military.

Suicide Prevention Help was created, as a "Friendship Letter" for those who are despairing and contemplating suicide by Kenneth Hemmerick, a Montreal, Canada, interdisciplinary fine artist, because he was shocked to find Web sites that actually encouraged people to kill themselves.

Since 1998, he has answered thousands of letters from people who have visited his site, offering a few kind words and positive suicide prevention resources available online and offline.

In July, 2006, he began creating a Global Web Directory of suicide prevention resources. This blog offers news and updates relating to this directory.

Feel free to suggest sites for inclusion in the directory.

Kenneth is a global core team member of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, anchored at Columbia University, and serves as Director of the group's Prevent Suicide by Extending Equal Dignity to All project.