Nationwide, a total of 22 veterans commit suicide a day due to struggles of readjustment and subsequent behavioral issues. The suicide rate for veterans in Guam and the CNMI continues to be a major community concern. One suicide in this community is one too many. <\/p>\n
To combat this, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Guam funding for a new program called, \u201cTogether with Veterans,\u201d a rural veteran suicide prevention program. TWV funding will develop suicide prevention training, resources, and materials. <\/p>\n
The project has three priority areas and strategies: identify service members, veterans, and their families and screen for suicide risk; promote connectedness and improved care transitions; and increase lethal means and safety planning. <\/p>\n
The TWV program committee competed the initial training and launch. Initial training involved a steering committee consisted of community stakeholders, 51% of which are veterans. There will be future meetings for the TWV to develop a needs assessment and action plan. <\/p>\n
The TWV community facilitator is Guam Vet Center director Dr. Edward Santos, together with veteran advocate Tania Marie Mendiola, who was assigned the role of TWV community program coordinator. <\/p>\n
TWV will extend this program to the CNMI. <\/p>\n
For further information on the program or any questions, contact Santos 1 (671) 472-7161 or Mendiola at 1 (671) 998- 4924. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nationwide, a total of 22 veterans commit suicide a day due to struggles of readjustment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}