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1. Go to http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Littleton-Youth-Initative/
2. On the right hand side it says: Join Greater Littleton Youth Initiative – click link…
3. Fill in Name, email address and a password of your choosing (make sure you write down or remember your password) and check agree box
4. Click “Join Us” button.
5. Meetup will then send a verification email to your email address…
6. Follow the link in the email to verify your email address… this will take you to your profile page.
7. Please write a short introduction to yourself and upload a photograph. This will allow fellow GLYI Meetup members to get to know you and to find you at the next meeting. At this stage, you also have the option of receiving emails or not as well as message board updates.
8. Click “Save” button.

You are now a member of the GLYI Meetup group and will receive notices of upcoming meetings, events, and notices (if you so directed). The group’s monthly minutes and reports are available in the “Files” section on the left as well as photos, a list of current members, and a message board.

Please RSVP for meetings on the right hand side of the current Meetup page and add a comment if you wish. The Home page of the GLI Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Littleton-Youth-Initative/) lists the next Meetup below the introduction as well as past and future Meetups for the group.

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Arapahoe County recently averaged one suicide a day over a two-week period, said Coroner Michael Dobersen.

Suicides in Arapahoe County are up from 34 through this time last year to as many as 42 so far this year. In at least a third to a half of those, the economy played a factor, Dobersen said.

“We’ve had so many over the past few weeks, it has gotten our attention,” Dobersen said. “The economy seems to be a common thread in some of them.”

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By the time she was 18, Cheryl Fike had moved nine times because of her father’s job. For Fike, every move was sad, distressing and alienating.

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Released at a community briefing today, Preventing Suicide in Colorado – Progress Achieved & Goals for the Future was issued jointly by Mental Health America of Colorado and The Colorado Trust. The report updates both the state’s 1998 Suicide Prevention and Intervention Plan to address Colorado’s historically high suicide rate, as well as The Trust’s 2002 report Suicide in Colorado, which documented the problem of suicide across the state and identified suicide-prevention resources. This report details key facts and figures about the suicide rate in Colorado, many of the prevention achievements in the past 10 years, and recommendations to strengthen suicide prevention and awareness efforts into the future.

The defendants in Courtroom 151P couldn’t look more different: Men and women, old and young. Black, white and brown skin creased by wrinkles or adorned with tattoos.

But they share an invisible trait — mental illness — that often sends them careening smack into a city ordinance. Then they ricochet, again and again, into jail. Or detox. Or the emergency room.

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