This site is dedicated to creating awareness about senior suicide and promoting the enactment of the Stop Senior Suicide Act, Senate Bill S. 1854.
On this blog you will find links to contact information for your senator and representative. I include representatives because there is a bill with duplicate language in the House of Representatives as well (HR. 4897).
A form letter has been written in advance. You are welcome to copy and paste into an email, letter or fax of your own. You will need to change the specific information about yourself, your story about why you are motivated to support the bill, and the contact information for your elected official.
The third piece of this blog is a video that my research partner and I produced. Please watch this video as it quickly (3 min) brings to light, the meaning and reach of S. 1854.
Please comment on the information provided on this blog and return frequently for updates.
Yours in health,
Chad
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S. 1854 was introduced to the US Senate last year by Senator Reid (NV) and supported by Senators Boxer (CA), Dodd (CT), Kerry (MA), and Sanders (VT). The Bill calls for 1)integrated and coordinated mental health, suicide prevention, health and aging services, 2) grants to implement elderly suicide early intervention strategies, 3) enhanced guidance, training and technical assistance to grantees working on elderly suicide prevention, and 4) equivalent Medicare coverage of mental health services.
S. 1854 links
Welcome:
I would like your opinion about the stop senior suicide act, Senate Bill S. 1854.
I'm using this blog as a grassroots mechanism of creating awareness and initiating a response from the public. I hope that after reading the information I have provided you will contact your congressmen and/or women in favor of the bill.
Feel free to add comments to the blog. I look forward to reading your views.
I'm using this blog as a grassroots mechanism of creating awareness and initiating a response from the public. I hope that after reading the information I have provided you will contact your congressmen and/or women in favor of the bill.
Feel free to add comments to the blog. I look forward to reading your views.
Organizations in Support of S. 1854
- Alliance for Children and Families
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- American Association for Suicidology
- American Association of Pastoral Counselors
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- American Group Psychotherapy Association
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Psychotherapy Association
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America
- Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare
- Association for the Advancement of Psychology
- Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Clinical Social Work Association
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action
- Mental Health America
- NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Association for Rural Mental Health
- National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders - ANAD
- National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
- National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
- National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
- National Disability Rights Network
- Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
- Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA)
- The Jason Foundation, Inc
- The Jed Foundation
- Therapeutic Communities of America
- United Jewish Communities
- United Neighborhood Centers of America
- Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
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