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WHAT
FISP IS ALL ABOUT
FISP is a
not-for-profit 501(c) 3 ALL VOLUNTEER
organization. Our funding is acquired
through Membership Dues, Grants,
Sponsorships, Fundraising Events and Donations.
Our
mission is the Prevention of Suicide.
The following statistics demonstrate the urgency
and
magnitude of
the need to focus on this mission.
DID YOU KNOW ?
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Worldwide over 1,000,000
people die each year by suicide.
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The CDC's most recent report shows the largest One-Year
Increase in Youth Suicide
Rate in 15 Years
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Suicide takes the lives of over
2,400 Floridians and
32,000 Americans
each year.
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In 2004, there were
2,382
reported suicide deaths in
Florida.
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Broward County Florida the youngest documented child to
complete suicide was
9 years
of age.
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Florida has the
2nd highest number of suicides in the Nation and
ranks #13 highest
rate of all
the states [2001].
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Florida has more than two times the number of
suicides than homicides or deaths by
HIV/AIDS.
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Every
43 seconds someone
in the U.S. attempts suicide; Every
17 minutes someone
in the U.S.
dies by suicide.
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For every single completed
suicide there are at least 25 attempts!
S Each
person who dies by suicide leaves behind an average of
eight loved ones or
survivors, not to mention friends, co-workers,
schoolmates and religious affiliates
These figures tell why our mission is so very
urgent here in the state of Florida and throughout
the United States. In an effort to prevent
suicide, FISP strives to accomplish our mission
to
Prevent Suicide by Educating Professionals
and the Public, Providing Prevention
Programs, Advocating for Mental Health Legislation
and Supporting Survivors of Suicide.
(A survivor is a person who has lost a loved
one to suicide.)
See the the Suicide Facts page for the
Florida Initiative For Suicide
Prevention
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DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL WARNING SIGNS
The following programs which FISP
provides to our community are the reasons why we have
become such an important part of the
suicide prevention effort in our state.
Now the Florida Initiative for Suicide
Prevention, Inc. is now also the
FLORIDA INITIATIVE
FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS
Providing the
FISP SUN Programs
FISP
SUN
Prevention Programs include:
The FISP Teen "
Solutions Unlimited Now" SUN Problem Solving Program
At locations In cooperation with:
The YMCA at Lauderhill Middle School
The YMCA in Hollywood
The Broward County Juvenile Justice Detention Center
The Broward County Juvenile Justice Probation Department
The Florida Ocean Sciences Institute
The SOS Children's Village
Hispanic Unity of Florida
LEAF - A Residential Detention Facility for Girls
The
NEW FISP
Adam Silverman College SUN Program
Soon to be on College Campuses in the South Florida Area
In partnership with Hillel of Palm Beach and Broward
Counties
The FISP SUNSHINE Club
Problem Solving and Support Program for the Elderly
in partnership with
the Broward County Elderly and Veterans Services Division
Prevention Trainings and Presentations:
Area on Aging Inter
Faith Conference
Broward County Foster Parents
Broward County Court Appointed Guardian ad Litem for
Children
Broward County Schools for Students and Teachers
Crisis Intervention Trainings for Dade and Broward County
Cypress
Bay High School
Drug Free Youth In Town
Fresh Start
Florida International University
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies
Miami Children's Hospital
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA)
Palm Beach Middle School Students
Police Departments
Dade and Broward including Broward Sheriffs Department
Pompano Beach Fire
Department Teen Program
University of Miami Law School
Youth Crime Watch National Convention
Survivor Support Programs:
Survivor Support Groups in four locations: (See
survivor page)
Davie, Hallendale Beach and Hollywood
FISP Annual Survivor of Suicide Day Conference
Telephone referrals and written material packages
Support Legislation:
Voting Member of the State Suicide Prevention Coordination
Council
Promoting Statewide legislation to support programs to
reduce suicide
Promoting funding for suicide research and education
Promoting better
medical services for the mentally ill
Support Mental Health Programs through
Collaboration:
Sponsor and Program Coordinator of the Broward-Palm Beach
Bi-County Suicide Prevention Through Mental Wellness
Day
Please do not hesitate. Call our office
to get more information. Join FISP
now and
help meet our state's goal to reduce suicide
in Florida by one third by 2010. Become
involved in this urgent mission to
Prevent Suicide Now!
Contact Jackie Rosen, Executive Director/CEO
(954) 384-0344
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Who’s on the Board at FISP:
Jackie Rosen, Executive
Director/CEO.
Officers
Harry M. Rosen, Esq., Chairman
Ruden McClosky Law Firm
Former Mayor of Miramar and
Weston
Joseph M. Steinman, Membership V.P.
Former CEO of Trimline Sales
Judi Robaina, Ways and Means V. P.
Activist in Area Charity
Organizations
Dawn Holcomb, Secretary
Ruden McClusky Law Firm
Helen Weil, SUN Program Coordinator
Founder and Director of Training Program for
the Mentally Ill
Former Associate Director Program for
Emotionally Disturbed Children
Board Members:
Michelle Channing, Ph.D
Licensed
Clinical Psychologist
Chris Holcomb- Publicity Chair
Community Activist for those with
Catastrophic Injuries
Wayne House, President/CEO
United Video & Teleconference Center
S. Elizabeth Kortlander, Ph.D
Licensed Psychologist
Frederick Lippman, B.Sc., R.Ph.,
Ed.D.
Chancellor
Health Professions Division.
Nova Southeastern University
jAMES McDonnell
President /
CEO
Pro Lab &
Windmill Adv.
Louis M.
Reidenberg, Esq.
Pamela
Westberg-Reidenberg
Vitas
Judge Ginger LERNER-WREN
Broward County
Mental-Health Judge
Rev. Robert W Sands,
Griffin Road Baptist Church
Sands Communications, Inc.
Silvana A. Savio, M.S,M.F.T
Marriage and Family Therapist
Sen. Ronald A. Silver
38th District, The Florida Senate
Judge Arlene J. Simon
Department of Juvenile Justice Office of
General Counsel
Legal Coordinator - Juvenile Delinquency and
Children in Nee Services. (CINS)
Austin W. Tupler
Austin Tupler Trucking, Inc.
Helen Weil
SUN
Program Coordinator
Polly Wilkie
Vice
President with Community
Bank of Broward
Prestige
Club, President
Lila Zedeck
Community Activist
Murray Zedeck, D.O.
Chairman, TransCapital Bank
Chairman and Professor (ret), Dept. of
Community Medicine of Southeastern College of
Osteopathic Medicine Member of "Broward
Beautiful" Advisory Board to Broward County
Commission Former Chairman, Broward County
Housing Finance Authorit
Honorary Board Members
Rene Barrett,
FISP Founding
Executive Director
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FISP ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD MEMBERS
ELECTED TO FISP BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lila
Zedeck
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FISP
SUN PROGRAM
“SOLUTIONS UNLIMITED
NOW”

The FISP
SUN Program:
"Solutions
Unlimited Now” for Adolescents,
College Students
and
The FISP SUNSHINE CLUB
Program
Model adapted
for Senior Citizens:
FISP
provides the structured
group counseling model SUN Problem Solving
Program to groups of teens and college
students in partnership with area
organizations at no cost to the
organization or the student. This ten step ten week
program is facilitated by a mental health
professional in confidential groups of
eight to ten participants. It is
funded strictly through donations, sponsorships
and grants. We have been very
successful at providing SUN to hundreds of
children in YMCA after school programs, teens
in the Broward County Juvenile
Justice system both in the Broward Detention
facility, the LEAF residential girls
facility and teens on probation as part of
their community service obligations.
Additionally we have serviced Hispanic
Unity of Florida in Hollywood and SOS
Children's Village in Coconut Creek.
SUN was originally developed by professor
Judith S. Tellerman, Ph.D. in Chicago.
FISP brought SUN to South Florida four years
ago after sponsoring research to verify it's
effectiveness. Through continual research
FISP has continued to improve and developed
enhancements to the program. In keeping with
this effort, FISP announces our collaboration
with Nova Southeastern University School of
Psychology and it's Director of the
Assessment and Consultation Center (SPACC)
Dr. Ralph E. Cash. This partnership
is for the purpose of furthering our
research and evaluation of the FISP SUN Program
enabling us to continue to enhance and
improve SUN effectiveness. The findings suggest
that the SUN model has an ability to produce
remarkable results in terms of improved
cognitive decision-making and social skills
in both troubled and normative teens and
pre-teens.
SUN is a very
flexible program that can be adapted and utilized with any
age group.
This adaptability has allowed FISP to
develop additional groups in partnership with many
agencies. This expansion has included
our SUNSHINE Club for the elderly in partnership
with the Health and Human Services Elderly
and Veteran’s Department in Broward County.
FISP will be starting groups at their
facility in December of 2006. The newly funded
Adam Silverman Memorial College SUN groups
are in developmentas well. A
partnership will be developed with several
area colleges to provide referrals to groups
on their campuses. FISP expects to
constantly expand and improve our SUN
based
programs with the help of Nova Southeastern
University’s continuous research which will
provide data and constant improvement in all
the FISP SUN based programs.
The feeling of
belonging, acceptance and safety of having a confidential
peer and adult
support system can
effectively help the 27.3 percent
of
Florida’s high
school students in
grades nine through
eleven that experienceddepression in 2005. It can give
the 14.5% of
that 27.3 %, who
seriously considered suicide and the 11.6% who made a
suicide plan the
confidence in
themselves to the stay alive. The alarming statistic showing
108.5% of youth
in the Hispanic
community as being depressed and 17.6% having made a plan to
accomplish
suicide shows the
urgent need in immigrant communities. Suicide is
the 5th
leading cause
of death for
youths 5-14
and the 3rd leading cause of death for youths
15-24. Data collected
by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) indicate that suicide emerges as
a significant problem during the high
school years, increases
among young adults
20–24 years of age, and continues to increase
marginally over thenext two decades
of life.
Help FISP continue this disparately needed program through
donations and sponsorships.
HELP
OUR TEENS, COLLEGE STUDENTS AND SENIORS LIVE MORE
SUCCESSFULLY!
SPONSOR A FISP “Solutions Unlimited Now”
☼ SUN GROUP ☼
HELP THEM ALL LEARN HOW TO SOLVE THEIR
PROBLEMS!
YOUR CONTRIBUTION WILL HELP THEM ALL
learn how to
BETTER
HANDLE THEIR DECISIONS
AND
BE A MORE PRODUCTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL.
The groups are structured to enable the teens
to help themselves and each other
learn how to find and implement well thought
out solutions to their problems. Each
group is facilitated by a SUN trained mental
health professional, who use various
modalities to help the group progress.
Groups include:
♦ 8
to 10 Participants
♦ 10 Weekly Group Meetings
♦ SUN Trained Adult Mental Health
Professional Group Facilitator
♦ All Program Materials
♦ Completion Party and
Completion Certificate
♦ Group
Research Data by Nova Southeastern University
I would like to Sponsor
____ $250
One Teen, College Student or Senior in a group
____ $500 Two Teens, College Students
or Seniors in a group
____ $1,250
Five Teens, College Students or Seniors in a
group
____ $2,500 One Complete Group of 10
Teens, College Students or Seniors
mail checks to address below made payable to:
FISP
2645 Executive Park Drive
Weston, FL 33331
I have enclosed a check in the amount of
$
.
Charge
to Visa ______ Master Card ______ American
Express ______
Card#___________________ Expiration Date:
_________
Signature:
_____________________________________
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HELP FISP HELP TEENS, COLLEGE STUDENTS, SENIORS AND
SURVIVORS LIVE HEALTHIER, HAPPIER MORE
SUCCESSFUL LIVES!
Join us at our 2008
ANNUAL DINNER DANCE
FISP Rocks at the GRAND
Honoring
Florida's
Secretary
of the
Department of Children and Families
Robert A.
Butterworth
with
the FISP Humanitarian Award
SUNday , April 6, 2008
Seven o’clock in the evening
at
The Signature Grand
6900 State Road #84
Davie, Florida
Cocktail Reception...Dinner...Dancing…Silent
Auction
Featuring
Entertainment and
Music for dancing and your listening pleasure
By the 11 piece Band
The Five Boroughs
Supporter: $100
Life Saver:
$150
per person
per person
Please respond by March 27, 2006
President
Ways and Means
Executive Director
Harry Rosen Judi Robaina
Jackie Rosen
Host
Committee Dinner Dance 2008
Senator Nan Rich & Mr.
David Rich
Rep. & Mrs. Martin Kiar
Rep. & Mrs. Frankin & Mrs. Leslie Sands
Broward
County
Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin
& Mr. Richard Rubin
Mayor & Mrs. Eric Hersh
Commissioner & Mrs.
Murray
Chermak
Commissioner
Angel & Stephanie Gomez
Commissioner
Mercedes
& Mr. Otto
Hendricksson
Commissioner and
Mrs.
Daniel Stermer
School Board Chair Robin & r. John Bartleman
Barry & Lexie Cohen
Eli & Mona Habib
Murray & Sheri Geffin
Byron & Beth
Jaffe
Paul
& Rochelle Konig
John & Monique Pepper
Laurie Rich-Levenson
Louie
& Judi Robaina
Harry
& Jackie Rosen
Gavin & Sue Susman
Ann Zucker
2008
FISP ROCKS
Dance
Committee
Chair Judi Robaina
RUTH BETTINI
Rosalind Burd
Lexie Cohen
Mary Ann Frame
Mona habib
Rina Keshen
Cynthia Kline
Ellen Korman
Candy Norton
Jamie Pierce
Pan Reidenberg
Karen
Saster
D'vorah Silverstein
Joy Werman
Lisa
Werner
Elsa Zoberg
Sponsor Opportunities
£
Save-A- LIFE-
Four tables of (10) & Event Sponsorship
Award..............$10,000
Newspaper Publicity and Journal Front Cover
£
LIFESAVER- Three Tables of Ten (10) & Center
Two (2) Pages………....$ 7,500
£
LIFE PRESERVER- Two Table of Ten & Outside Back
Cover Page……$ 5,000
£
Table of Ten & Inside Front or Back
Cover Page.…..............................$ 2,500
Front
sold
£
LIFEGUARD-
Table of Ten
& One inside Page……………………….…...$ 1,500
£
LIFELINE-
Table of Tens
& 1/2 Page…………………………………......….$ 1,000
£
HELPING
HAND- Four (4) Tickets & 1/4 Page………………………….….
$ 500
*
Available on “first come” basis *
Advertising deadline March 20, 2007
“Dance at the Love IN”
AD SIZES & RATES
£
Full Page - 5-1/2 x 8-1/2……………………………………………..$ 500
£ Half Page – 5-1/2 x 4-1/4…………………………………………….$ 300
£ One Third Page – 5-1/2 x
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