The Donations With Love Foundation’s
(DWLF) program will focus on and address the needs associated with Suicide and Crisis Prevention across the Flint community. The association between mental illness and suicide is one of the most researched topics today. People who live with a mental disorder in contemporary society are more likely to have a number of risk factors associated with suicide. Suicide attempts often occur in a crisis where the anxiety, psychic pain, and feelings of being overwhelmed, helpless, and hopeless increase the suicide risk. Noncompliance with treatment and inadequate treatment may be important risk factors for suicide. In this case, it is not the mental disorder in and of itself that results in greater suicide risk, but rather inadequate, inappropriate, or incomplete treatment for the disorder. Suicides occur at different times during the course of mental disorders depending upon the specific disorder. The goal of DWLF is to help inform the youth of our community regarding the things that lead to crisis situations and often to
attempted suicide and suicide. We will heighten awareness as to how it affects young people and the community at large through the help of family crisis coaches, and certified instructors to facilitate workshops to educate parents and youth on depression d anxiety problems.