Team Chenango 5k for suicide prevention held tomorrow
OXFORD – The 4th Annual Team Chenango 5k for suicide awareness and prevention is set to kick off Saturday, Oct. 18 at Lafayette Park in Oxford.
Team Chenango consists of nine members who hold two fundraising events per year. The team has participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) Out of the Darkness walk for the past five years. One hundred eight Americans take their own life each day, according to the AFSP.
Danielle Marshman Williamson, a Team Chenango Member, said, “This past June we walked 18 miles from 7:30 p.m. until 3 a.m. in Philadelphia along with approximately 2,000 other people to raise nearly $2,000,000.”
This Saturday, Team Chenango is opting to start something new with the hopes to draw more attention – the members will all wear tutus. “We will be sporting these for the 5K on Saturday, we will also have other people sporting them as well,” Williamson said. “We may have others for sale if we get enough time to make them.”
Registration for the 5k begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and runners and walkers begin at 10 a.m. The fee to register is $25, which includes lunch and a T-shirt. There will be food and a bake sale on the park throughout the morning.
According to the AFSP website, suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined.
The website also reads that more than 39,000 people in the United State die by suicide each year, and it is the fourth leading cause of death for those between the ages of 15 and 64 in the US. Additionally, the foundation estimates there are four male suicides to each female suicide, but “three times as many females attempt suicide.”
The foundation links suicide to depression. “Over 60 percent of all people who die by suicide suffer from major depression. If one includes alcoholics who are depressed, this figure rises to over 75 percent,” reads the website.
“I lost my dad 13 years ago to suicide and since then our community has lost some other very special people to suicide and there is a way to stop this,” Williamson said. “It is education, awareness and cessation of the stigma of mental illness including depression.”
Williamson added she first participated in the Out of the Darkness walk in Boston on her own walking solely for her father.
“We all walk 18 miles every year for many different reasons, mine unfortunately has grown to many more people,” Williamson said.
Those who wish to register online can do so by visiting active.com. The proceeds go to Team Chenango who will be walking in the Out of the Darkness walk in June of 2015 to raise funds for the AFSP.
“Now I walk for many specific individuals, I walk for those who are suffering from depression, I walk for those who have survived an attempt and I walk for those who can't face the realities of suicide, those who turn a blind eye, those who make the stigma what it is, because if we can break through to them, then we can help so many people choose life,” Williamson said.
For more information contact call Danielle Marshman Williamson at 343-6036 or email danielle.Marshman@gmail.com.
Team Chenango consists of nine members who hold two fundraising events per year. The team has participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) Out of the Darkness walk for the past five years. One hundred eight Americans take their own life each day, according to the AFSP.
Danielle Marshman Williamson, a Team Chenango Member, said, “This past June we walked 18 miles from 7:30 p.m. until 3 a.m. in Philadelphia along with approximately 2,000 other people to raise nearly $2,000,000.”
This Saturday, Team Chenango is opting to start something new with the hopes to draw more attention – the members will all wear tutus. “We will be sporting these for the 5K on Saturday, we will also have other people sporting them as well,” Williamson said. “We may have others for sale if we get enough time to make them.”
Registration for the 5k begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and runners and walkers begin at 10 a.m. The fee to register is $25, which includes lunch and a T-shirt. There will be food and a bake sale on the park throughout the morning.
According to the AFSP website, suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined.
The website also reads that more than 39,000 people in the United State die by suicide each year, and it is the fourth leading cause of death for those between the ages of 15 and 64 in the US. Additionally, the foundation estimates there are four male suicides to each female suicide, but “three times as many females attempt suicide.”
The foundation links suicide to depression. “Over 60 percent of all people who die by suicide suffer from major depression. If one includes alcoholics who are depressed, this figure rises to over 75 percent,” reads the website.
“I lost my dad 13 years ago to suicide and since then our community has lost some other very special people to suicide and there is a way to stop this,” Williamson said. “It is education, awareness and cessation of the stigma of mental illness including depression.”
Williamson added she first participated in the Out of the Darkness walk in Boston on her own walking solely for her father.
“We all walk 18 miles every year for many different reasons, mine unfortunately has grown to many more people,” Williamson said.
Those who wish to register online can do so by visiting active.com. The proceeds go to Team Chenango who will be walking in the Out of the Darkness walk in June of 2015 to raise funds for the AFSP.
“Now I walk for many specific individuals, I walk for those who are suffering from depression, I walk for those who have survived an attempt and I walk for those who can't face the realities of suicide, those who turn a blind eye, those who make the stigma what it is, because if we can break through to them, then we can help so many people choose life,” Williamson said.
For more information contact call Danielle Marshman Williamson at 343-6036 or email danielle.Marshman@gmail.com.
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