{"id":39916,"date":"2015-02-11T02:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39916"},"modified":"2015-02-11T02:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:49:39","slug":"connecting-the-dots-in-suicide-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39916","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vq.vassar.edu\/issues\/2014\/02\/beyond-vassar\/connecting-the-dots-in-suicide-prevention.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vq.vassar.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Vassar Alumnae\/i Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\nPoughkeepsie, New York<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vq.vassar.edu\/issues\/2014\/02\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spring\/Summer 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Marcus \u201980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Hyde \u201992<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afsp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a> (AFSP), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afsp.org\/about-afsp\/our-organization\/staff-directory\/christine-moutier-m.d\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Yu Moutier \u201990<\/a> wants to do something about that.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, following two decades of working as a professor of psychiatry and assistant dean for student affairs and medical education at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Moutier was named chief medical officer for AFSP, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>From its headquarters in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>, she manages a wide range of the organization\u2019s work, including research funding ($5 million for current research), grant selection, and the dissemination of findings. She also oversees programs for survivors of suicide loss and coordinates educational efforts focused primarily on suicide prevention&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;While dedicated to her work as an academic, Moutier has always carved out time for clinical work. She considers her work with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Diego\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego\u2019s<\/a> Asian refugee population a particular privilege.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mixed-race person growing up in a town that was mostly Slavic and working class, I was teased, so I have special empathy for people who look and feel different. Also, because of mental illness in my own extended family, I grew up seeing how Western medicine wasn\u2019t always trusted,\u201d she says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/vq.vassar.edu\/issues\/2014\/02\/beyond-vassar\/connecting-the-dots-in-suicide-prevention.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention Vassar Alumnae\/i Quarterly Poughkeepsie, New York Spring\/Summer 2014 Eric Marcus \u201980 Rebecca Hyde \u201992 According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. Christine Yu Moutier \u201990 wants to do something about that. Last fall, following two decades of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[19321,19320,19317,19318,19319,9893],"class_list":["post-39916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-afsp","tag-american-foundation-for-suicide-prevention","tag-christine-yu-moutier","tag-eric-marcus","tag-rebecca-hyde","tag-vassar-alumnaei-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}