{"id":2536,"date":"2010-08-25T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:46:00","slug":"a-safety-net-riddled-with-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/25\/a-safety-net-riddled-with-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A safety net riddled with holes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Department of Defense task force yesterday said the military has hundreds of suicide prevention programs in place.\u00a0 But they&#8217;re not working well enough to stem the growing number of servicemen and -women committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>309 men and women slipped through the safety net last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2010\/08\/24\/2172786\/task-force-calls-military-suicide.html\">In a write-up by McClatchy Newspapers<\/a>, the report cites these flaws in the system:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-The military doesn&#8217;t have enough behavioral specialists  and  suicide prevention officers, and that those it has need better  training.<\/p>\n<p>-Suicide prevention programs aren&#8217;t streamlined across services.<\/p>\n<p>-Service members still encounter discriminatory and humiliating experiences when seeking psychiatric help.<\/p>\n<p>-Unit-level leaders especially struggle with how to assist the men and women under their guidance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The task force calls for the DOD to create a new office of suicide prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Department of Defense task force yesterday said the military has hundreds of suicide prevention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}