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According to new data, more people call a hotline of the Mental Health of Johnson in the county, according to new data from the Ferrings. Although this does not always correlate directly with a decrease in suicide, experts in health of the county said that it can often be an indicator.

The latest available data, issued last week, show early signs of improvement. In 2023, 93 people died as a result of suicide, compared to 122 a year earlier. The number of people who died through suicide in the Fountains has been climbing since 2020, said Epidemiologist Gabe Hawkins.

The message is positive, said Hawkins, but people should be considered too far in numbers.

“It’s hard to say if this is a sign that everything is going forward,” said Hawkins. “We can hope and we can be glad that there were less suicide (but) we can simply not say for sure.”

Suicide increased in Johnson from 2021 to 2022, from 94 deaths to 122 – many young adults aged 18 to 29.

Data from 2023 show that men aged 20 are half of the screenshot.

Shana Burgess, director of prevention in Johnson County Mental Health Center, said that the county is going to tell teenagers and young adults that you can seek help, whether through the crisis inflying of the Ferrity, or in person.

“We are constantly putting out messages, both so that people get acquainted with (hotline) numbers, as well as normalize the calling of these numbers,” said Burgess.

Destigmatization of struggle for mental health

Burgess said that programs like Zero reasons They are an important part of effort to normalize and distigmatize obtaining help in the field of mental health.

The program, founded after five suicide in the 2017-18 school year in the Blue Valley school district, is based on three pillars: More open communication on mental health and suicide, building support of the community free from judgment and commitment to mental health and early and consistent education of suicide prevention.

Zero reasons for which he organizes events called “yellow out”, in which students wear yellow t -shirts with the campaign logo and organize banner signatures, in which students write news about their experience with mental health.

Burgess said that encouraging people to share their stories helps students and other young people in the county, feel more confident, opening their struggles or identifying when a friend or classmate can fight.

Burgess also cooperates with a coalition of preventing suicides of Johnson. She said that they focused on the safety of weapons after the data in the report showed that firearms are the basic method of suicide.

While teenagers and young adults are the main goal, Burgess said that they still have to take care of the entire community, and not just for a few endangered demographics.

There was suicide throughout the country The second leading cause of death In 2021, for people aged 10-14 to 25-34, the third leading cause of death among people aged 15-24 and the fifth leading cause of the death of people in the years 35–44.

“We do not know, which is why any person is going through at any time,” said Burgess. “So I think that it is very well thought out not to spend assumptions in one way or another and encourage you to look for help for everyone.”