8A | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Helping
Guatemalans
in The Grove
Gene O’Neil of the
Bohemia Sunrisers
Kiwanis (left)
recently presented
a check for $500 to
Anna Marie Dudley
of Peggy’s Primary
Connection. The
donation will be
used to provide
food and necessary
services for
Guatemalan fami-
lies living in the
Cottage Grove area.
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Community Health Assess-
ment lists five main factors
that can buffer individuals
from suicidal thoughts and
behavior: effective clinical
care, easy access to a variety
of clinical interventions and
support, family and commu-
nity support, support from
ongoing medical and mental
health care relationships and
skills in nonviolent problem
solving and conflict resolu-
tion.
The
theme
running
through these factors is
support: support from the
health care system and from
an individual’s community.
The stigma around home-
lessness in addition to the
stigma around mental ill-
ness can be paralyzing, while
support for individuals fac-
ing these experiences can be
the guiding hand forward —
and away from irreversible
action.
“I think, as a communi-
ty, we can do a better job at
talking about it, too,” said
Benson-Arb. “We can talk
about the elderly person
who has had a full life and
takes their life, but it’s hard
to bring up suicide with
a team committed to contin-
uous improvement with the
patient and community at
the center,” McGovern said.
“I am eager to begin contrib-
uting what I’ve learned over
the last decade and look
forward to continuing my
personal growth and devel-
opment at PeaceHealth.”
An experienced physician
leader, Dr. McGovern comes
to PeaceHealth from Wis-
consin-based ThedaCare,
where he currently serves
as system vice president of
medical affairs.
His first day will be April
29.
kids, teens — so we don’t ask
… and I think we contin-
ue to stigmatize it when we
don’t use plain language.”
On an individual level,
education and action are the
most direct ways to make
change within a communi-
ty; taking a mental first-aid
or suicide prevention class,
volunteering with warm-
ing shelters and donating
clothes or funds to local
organizations or DHS pro-
grams can all make a dif-
ference, as can reaching out
to struggling family, friends
and frequently seen faces.
Supporting
affordable
housing efforts and volun-
teering with organizations
such as Habitat for Human-
ity can also help get more
people into homes, provid-
ing more stability for fami-
lies and individuals who are
at risk by helping them ac-
quire the most basic human
needs identified in Maslow’s
Hierarchy.
For a list of mental health
resources in our county, call
South Lane Mental Health
in Cottage Grove at 541-
942-3939 or visit http://
www.slmh.org/
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PeaceHealth recently an-
nounced a new addition to
the Oregon network’s med-
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Dr. James McGovern has
accepted the role of vice
president of medical affairs
for the Oregon network.
Working with medical
staff leaders, Dr. McGov-
ern will continue to develop
the operations of the new
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County Behavioral Health
office, “and … our teen pop-
ulation (is) extremely vul-
nerable to suicide.”
The trifecta of homeless-
ness, health conditions and
behavioral health issues is
often deadly. Benson-Arb
explained that a lack of
structure, repeatedly mov-
ing from one temporary
situation to another, can ex-
acerbate problems in early
psychosis patients. This can
be worsened by suffering
physical health and other
instabilities that affect the
homeless.
“Mental illness plays a
major role in homelessness,”
said Amanda Cherryholmes,
Program Director for the
Lincoln City Resource Cen-
ter and Emergency Warm-
ing Shelter, “whether it be
that someone who becomes
homeless due to their men-
tal illness or vice versa that
becoming homeless then
creates a mental illness.
Not having your basic ne-
cessities met such as guar-
anteed meals, shower, clean
clothes and a safe place to
sleep will cause anyone to
develop a mental illness over
time.”
According to Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs, a moti-
vational theory comprising
a five-tier model of human
needs, the most basic need
are physiological: food, wa-
ter, sleep, shelter, clothing
and so on. Maslow’s theory
is that when the base level
of those needs aren’t met, a
person cannot address high-
er needs — which are in as-
cending order: safety, love
and belonging, esteem and
self-actualization.
“The most common men-
tal illness that we see in
the homeless population is
PTSD, depression and anx-
iety,” said Cherryholmes.
“Imagine being stuck out-
side with nothing to eat,
no safe place to sleep and
the inability to keep clean.
Could you possibly stay op-
timistic like that?”
In a fact sheet released by
the National Health Care
for the Homeless Council
in May 2018, “Sixty-eight
percent of homeless individ-
uals reported that they had
experienced psychological
distress in the past month.
These health issues are ex-
acerbated by exposure to the
elements, heightened risk
of violence through phys-
ical and sexual abuse and a
fragmented health system
with restrictions on how and
to whom care is delivered,
which can lead to hope-
lessness, distrust, misuse
of emergency services and
self-treatment.”
The fact sheet went on
to explain that under those
conditions, which already
increase the likelihood of
suicide in the general pop-
ulation, the compound-
ing factors associated with
homelessness place those
individuals at much higher
risk of suicide.
In Lincoln County, for ex-
ample, homelessness and a
lack of affordable housing is
a regular topic of discussion
among community groups,
at city council meetings and
at the county government
level — Lincoln County also
holds the fourth-highest sui-
cide rate in Oregon. The key
to alleviating these pressures
is individual support and
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