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CITY OF PALO ALTO OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
September 4, 2012
The Honorable City Council
Palo Alto, California
Proclamation Recognizing Suicide Prevention Week, September 9-15,
2012
ATTACHMENTS:
Suicide Prevention Week September (DOC)
Department Head: Donna Grider, City Clerk
Updated: 8/27/2012 12:44 PM by Beth Minor Page 2
CITY OF PALO ALTO
PROCLAMATION
Recognizing Suicide Prevention Week
September 9-15, 2012
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto recognizes suicide as a public health problem, and suicide
prevention as a public responsibility, and designates September 9-15, 2012 “Suicide Prevention Week”
in Palo Alto; and
WHEREAS, suicide is the 10th leading cause of all deaths in the United States and the 3rd leading
cause of death among individuals between the ages of 12 to 24; and
WHEREAS, in the United States, one person completed suicide every 12.2 minutes; and
WHEREAS, it is estimated at that 4.73 million people in the United States are survivors of suicide;
and
WHEREAS, an increase in the overall suicide rate in our country was seen in 2009, representing a
change in the recent pattern of slight declines; and
WHEREAS, the stigma associated with mental illness discourages persons at risk for suicide from
seeking life-saving help and further traumatizes survivors of suicide; and
WHEREAS, in 2010 the City of Palo Alto adopted a Suicide Prevention Policy and aspires to reduce
loss of life from death by suicide and the pain of survivors affected by suicide of loved ones, through
prevention outreach and training of the signs and symptoms associated with suicide; and
WHEREAS, loss of life by suicide is preventable.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Yiaway Yeh, Mayor of the City of Palo Alto, on behalf of the City Council
do hereby proclaim September 9 -15, 2012 as “National Suicide Prevention Week” in the City of Palo
Alto.
Presented: September 4, 2012
______________________________
Yiaway Yeh
Mayor