Choosing Life, One Moment at a Time
September is National Suicide Prevention Month and September is World Suicide Prevention Day. At Covered, we assist with suicide prevention, intervention, and after care, with survivors of sex trafficking every day. Many survivors of trafficking at Covered are also suicide attempt survivors and suicide loss survivors who have utilized the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988.
In our program, we are able to come alongside and provide many protective factors and teach tools and skills that can help each woman begin to thrive. For many survivors, their basic needs of food, water, shelter, clothing are being met freely for the first time. Access to medical care and medication management become consistent in their lives. Survivors no longer feel unsafe or trapped in impossible situations. They apply self care and self regulating techniques early and often and begin to evaluate their thoughts and beliefs within a supportive community. Access to lethal means is removed and individualized safety plans are put into place to help each woman choose life moment by moment.
Thoughts of suicide can occur for anyone. Sometimes people don't know how to live with what they have been through and lose hope in their current situations. It is important we ask clearly about suicide and connect people to help and resources via the Lifeline, 988, or other organizations. At Covered, we are grateful to provide tangible help to survivors impacted by suicide and to see a flicker of the light of hope begin to emerge after some of their darkest days.
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At Covered, survivors impacted by suicide have access to safety, stability, care, and a supportive community as they navigate some of their most difficult moments. Your gift helps make this ongoing, trauma-informed support possible for women working toward healing and self-sufficiency.
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