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8A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • June 7, 2017
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Falute Maitland holds her brother’s football jersey. Maitland told her the story about her brother, Seniu Maitland.
Efforts to prevent suicide underway
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
POLK COUNTY — Mid-
Valley Suicide Prevention
Coalition produced two
videos of the stories of local
people who lost a family
member to suicide.
Those videos have been
viewed nearly 60,000 times.
“These days there’s a lot of
talk just out there online
about suicide, so we are try-
ing to get a message out
there to reach as many peo-
ple as possible,” said Doug
Gouge, the coalition pro-
gram supervisor.
The message is that it’s
OK to talk about suicide if
it’s affected you, and it’s OK
to seek help if you are con-
templating suicide. The
hope is that talking will save
lives.
"For many of us, suicide is
an uncomfortable topic.
There is often a fear that
talking about suicide might
cause someone to take his
(or) her life. This simply is
not true,” said Rosanna Lar-
son, whose father, Charles
Chambers Jr., took his own
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ola Hills Winery and Vine-
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The winery has two locations for
visitors to sit and sip, a tasting room
on Highway
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at its Legacy
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yard at 1600
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Road NW. The
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offers stun-
ning views of
meadows,
vineyards and
forests, mak-
ing it a must-see des-
tination for Polk
County residents and
visitors alike.
One of the great
things about Eola
Hills is its variety, not
just in types of wines,
but in price and
palate.
While you can pick
up a good bottle of
wine for a good price
at a local grocer, head
to the tasting room to
You can help
Mid-Valley Suicide Prevention offers suicide prevention
training in two classes:
• “Question Persuade and Refer,” or QPR, a free one- to
two-hour workshop. The next dates are Thursday and June
27.
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, or ASIST, is a
two-day training, which costs $100. The next dates are Sept.
28-29.
For more information or to learn more about Roseanna
Larson and Falute Maitland, go to: mvsuicide
prevention.com/resources/display/Home.
life in 1990.
He was 45.
In the video, released on
Facebook on April 17, Lar-
son describes how her father
battled depression for years.
Shortly before taking his
life, Larson, of Monmouth,
said her father asked her
and her husband to take
him for a drive. He spent the
time giving them life advice,
and Larson said it felt like he
was saying goodbye.
“I think of all the things
he’s missed and the things
that we’ve missed,” she said.
The coalition produced a
second video released on
May 8, which featured Fa-
lute Maitland, whose broth-
er, Seniu Maitland, killed
himself in 2016.
He was 18.
Seniu played football —
and was the 250-pound
giant that would help up
every guy he tackled. People
called him “a big teddy
bear,” Falute said in the
video.
She said her brother
struggled to feel loved or
that he had potential for
anything.
“Knowing how much he
was struggling to find hope
made me want to care for
him even more,” she said.
Falute, of Corvallis, be-
lieves training people to rec-
ognize the signs and what to
fully experience the depth of tal-
ent offered by Eola’s head wine-
maker, Steve Anderson. There
you will discover a whole new
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The tasting room staff are
friendly and eager to share their
knowledge of Eola Hills and its
award-winning wines.
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say to someone could pre-
vent suicides.
“If we all pitch in and
learn a few things here and
there about suicide preven-
tion, we could save many
people,” Falute said.
Both videos include the
hashtag #OK2ASK, which
the coalition has been using
for 10 months. To see the
videos, go to www.face-
book.com/midvalleysui-
cidepreventioncoalition/.
This August or September,
the coalition will release a
third video, this one from
the perspective of high
school students with the
message that people fighting
depression or thinking
about suicide are not alone.
“It’s a project we worked
on with Central High School,
specifically with the Power
Peers class, which is a non-
traditional leadership class,”
Gouge said. “One of the rea-
sons that we are a little extra
proud of this video is that
this video actually started
with student ideas, so stu-
dents were involved in this
process from the beginning
all the way to the end.”
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