CHARLOTTE – Greater than 140 folks die by suicide each day in the US, in line with the American Basis for Suicide Prevention.
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Advocates and organizations throughout the nation are working every day in hopes of getting that quantity right down to zero. Right here in Charlotte, Vonda Bryant heads to parking heaps, the place she posts indicators with numbers for assets and the message “You are Not Alone.”
“Once you’re preventing it by yourself, you are feeling such as you’re alone; you are feeling like nobody understands, and nobody cares,” Bryant stated. “I need folks to understand they are not alone; you are not alone; there’s assist right here.”
Three years in the past, a 16-year-old woman dedicated suicide by leaping from the Inexperienced Metropolis car parking zone on East sixth Road in uptown Charlotte. Bryant stated she is aware of the ache felt by these considering suicide; Over 25 years in the past, I attempted to leap out of the identical car parking zone.
This tragedy impressed Bryant to start making suicide prevention indicators extra seen all through the deck and to start calling on native and metropolis leaders for change. For the reason that indicators have been changed, there have been no additional makes an attempt on the car parking zone.
Bryant plans to work with ten different parking decks to place up their indicators. She hopes so as to add them to all city-owned decks sooner or later
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