COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 | 7A
A bumper sticker created
by Al Kennedy High
School student Haley
Montoya (left) as part of a
special class unite on sui-
cide focused on causes,
awareness and preven-
tion; artwork as a PSA
created by students
Carson Anderson and Theo
Stark (below) depicting
the sense of isolation
often felt by those con-
templating suicide.
Kennedy from A1
unit with a wide variety of
experience or knowledge of
the subject — some com-
pletely unaware of the reali-
ties of depression and others
having attempted to commit
suicide — they ended in a
similar place of understand-
ing of a complex topic.
For Kennedy student
Jaden Hungate, talking
about mental health issues
was eye-opening and not
something he had put much
thought into. A new student
to Kennedy, he was pre-
pared to not take this lesson
seriously.
“I just thought it was a
joke. Like we’re going to
learn about suicide, what’s
the point? But then we spent
the day and we learned
about it and actually came
to an understanding about it.
And it’s real,” said Hungate.
“People actually die and are
so depressed they want to
end their life.”
Coming in without an un-
derstanding of the realties
of the issue, Hungate is a
clear example of why this
particular lesson is import-
ant. For his PSA, he made a
red bumper sticker with the
words in black and a white
trim, that he is looking to
get printed to give to stu-
dents at Kennedy and var-
ious businesses around Cot-
tage Grove. It simply states,
“Suicide is real.”
“We learned about it
more, we researched it and I
pulled up facts [and] people
need to understand that it’s
not just something that you
can blow over, it’s some-
thing real,” said Hungate.
For Hungate’s classmate
Haley Montoya, she was
well-aware of the all-to-re-
al realities of suicide before
learning about it in school.
“I, as a person, have at-
tempted suicide before. I’ve
got a lot of treatment, I’m
still dealing with it myself
and, personally, I want to
help other people because
it’s not something you
should do,” she explained.
“In life, it’s kind of like,
right now it’s bad but you
have to think about the fu-
ture; it’s really important
because if you do kill your-
self, there’s so much more
opportunities that you don’t
have. So it’s a personal thing
to me.”
Montoya was committed
to creating the best possible
project and settled on mak-
ing a bumper sticker. The
bumper sticker features the
number to the suicide ho-
tline with the phrase “your
story isn’t over” next to a
semi-colon that is fi lled with
words showing the pain of
depression.
“So with the semicolon,
when you use it in a sen-
tence it’s like, it’s not the
end; you’re continuing.
So people use it as, ‘Well,
I’m depressed and I want
to commit suicide, I’ve at-
tempted, but I’m a survivor
because I’m still continuing
to this day,’” said Montoya.
For Montoya, this lesson
not only got to let her shine
in an artistic way but helped
start a dialogue about a sub-
ject that she feels should be
discussed.
“Everyone looks at it like
a taboo thing, like, ‘Oh,
don’t talk about that, it’s
weird.’ I think that if ev-
erybody was just kind of
open about it, it would be
easier,” she said. “So when
I share my history with it, I
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First Baptist Church
301 S. 6th st • 541-942-8242
Pastor: David Chhangte
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541-942-4479
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820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: Kevin Miller
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40
Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00
Hope Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
100 S. Gateway Blvd.
541-942-2061
Pastor: Dave Bragg
Worship: 11:00am Sunday
Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday
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Trinity Lutheran Church
6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Pastor: James L. Markus
Sunday School & Adult Education
9:15am
Sunday Worship 10:30 am
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467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Worship Services Sundays: 9a & 11a
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1041 Pennoyer Ave
541-942-8928
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Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
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103 S. 5th St. • 541-942-4999
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541-942-3420
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names” to avoid being
served papers to testify,
which may separate them
from the children they’re
trying to serve.
The process of bringing
a child into their family is
selective and child-driven,
said Dreamer.
Typically, BACA will get a
call from a parent or guard-
ian and send a child liaison
to vet the family and make
sure the group is the right
fit to serve the child. If it’s a
fit, they let the child choose
a road name and patches for
their own tailored biker vest.
“So they’re being empow-
ered from the start,” said
Dreamer.
Giving a child that confi-
dence is critical to helping
them face their fear. “A lot of
times what it is, is it’s a child
who’s afraid to speak their
truth in court,” Dreamer
said. “Either they’re not able
to do a forensic interview or
they’re afraid someone will
hurt them if they tell their
truth. … So what we do is
we bring them into our fam-
ily and we become some-
thing bigger and stronger
than what they are facing.”
The group serves children
as young 3 or 4 years old and
teenagers up to 18.
“We work hand-in-hand
with other agencies,” said
Dreamer.
Dreamer recalled one
case in which a child they
brought in was quiet, tim-
id and likely threatened by
their victimizer not to speak
out.
Empowered by having the
BACA members attend the
court proceedings, the child
was able to speak confident-
ly during examination by
the opposing attorney, face
the perpetrator and point
directly at the accused to say,
“You did it.”
Exposure for groups like
BACA are made possible by
networking events like the
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information about events,
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feel it will help others
open up because peo-
ple usually will talk if
they can relate to it so I
said that because there
are a lot of people who
are depressed - they
just don’t want to talk
about it.”
Across the rest of the
classroom,
students
share their projects
that come in different
forms. There are vid-
eos that were shot and
directed on a students’
phone in addition to
shirts and a handful
of bumper stickers.
Carson Anderson and
Theo Stark created
a picture (drawn by
Stark) showing an
individual next to a
noose that feels isolat-
ed and stuck next to a
group of people that
care for them.
“I have depression
and stuff so [this les-
son] hit home. It hit
hard,” said Anderson.
“It’s a valuable mes-
sage that needs to be
put out there.”
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