{"id":8580,"date":"2024-11-08T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2024-10-28T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:10:46","slug":"suicide-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/suicide-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"SUICIDE PREVENTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While participating in a Zoom conference with other members of the New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition, of which I\u2019ve been a proud member for a quarter century or so, I was reminded that I have not addressed here a topic NHFSC has strongly and successfully focused upon: suicide prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization was founded by the late, great Elaine Frank, seen in our lead photo, when she led the Injury Prevention Center in Hanover, NH. This, thanks to Elaine, is the only organization I\u2019ve ever seen which successfully brought together the warring factions of a major sociological debate to work for a positive common cause. NHFSC has included pro-gun and anti-gun activists along with neutral experts in the fields of public safety, injury prevention, and suicide prevention. I offer here <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/guns-suicide-prevention-and-backwoods-lifestyles\/\" target=\"_blank\">an article on suicide prevention that I wrote<\/a> several years ago for <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NHFSC\u2019s approach has been widely copied in other states. It has saved lives. You can find more info on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconnectprogram.org\/resources\/nh-firearm-safety-coalition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NHFSC on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While participating in a Zoom conference with other members of the New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition, of which I\u2019ve been a proud member for a quarter century or so, I was reminded that I have not addressed here a topic NHFSC has strongly and successfully focused upon: suicide prevention. The organization was founded by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8583,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}