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Pinnacle Pointe Hospital Hosts the 2010 Youth Suicide Prevention Poetry and PSA Awards
L to R: Nate Hail, The Jason Foundation President and CEO Clark Flatt, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, Taylor Maxwell and Tyler McCauley
On hand for the program at Pinnacle Pointe, a Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (PSI) full-service behavioral health facility, were Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and Clark Flatt, president and chief executive officer of the Jason Foundation, Inc. (JFI). JFI is a nationally recognized leader in youth suicide prevention, working closely with PSI facilities and attorneys general nationwide to provide youth suicide awareness and prevention programs. Pinnacle Pointe, McDaniel and JFI banded together to sponsor this contest and awards ceremony as a culmination to Youth Suicide Prevention Week March 28-April 3.
“At Pinnacle Pointe, we value being a community resource for Little Rock’s youth and providing education on suicide prevention,” said Lisa Evans, CEO of Pinnacle Pointe Hospital. “We are honored to have held The 2010 Youth Suicide Prevention Poetry and PSA Awards Ceremony which allows teens to educate teens through a creative process about how precious life is and that there are alternatives.”
The students’ poems and PSAs were judged by a group of local advocates of youth suicide prevention, including Donna Monk, state coordinator for JFI; Beth Davis, community liaison at Pinnacle Pointe; Captain Tanya Phillips, state suicide prevention manager for the Army National Guard; Valerie Kodell, retired Little Rock School District teacher; Hazel McKoin, retired social worker; Stacey McAdoo, poet and educator in the Little Rock School District; and Dr. Lia Steele, professor and chair of the Humanities Division at Philander Smith College. The judges scored the students’ poems and PSAs based on their ability to creatively convey the contest’s theme and encouraging other students to examine their potential and look at life’s positive aspects.
The following students were recipients in the poetry division:
Junior High Poetry Winners
1st Place: Jake Edwards, Paragould Junior H.S.
2nd Place: Eric Thorn, Beebe Junior H.S.
3rd Place: Hailey Oosterloo, Carl Stuart M.S.
Honorable Mention: Brianna Dixon, Bismark H.S.
Senior High Poetry Winners
1st Place: Rebecca Simmons, Searcy H.S.
2nd Place: Sarah Matthews, Lonoke H.S.
3rd Place: Michael Wallace, Searcy H.S.
Honorable Mention: Rose Dean, Searcy H.S.
Honorable Mention: Aspen Jones, Danville H.S.
The winning PSA was produced by Nate Hail, Tyler McCauley and Taylor Maxwell, all of Cabot High School. The runner-up in the PSA division was produced by Karyn Doan, Allie Cook and Hailey Bruce, all of Cabot High School.
About Pinnacle Pointe Hospital
Pinnacle Pointe Hospital, founded in 1991, provides quality psychiatric and chemical dependency acute services for children and adolescents ages 5 to 17. The 124-bed facility provides acute (short term), residential (longer term) and school-based outpatient services to its patients. Pinnacle Pointe focuses on individualized treatment and early intervention in order for the child to achieve optimum results and an expedient return to family and school. For more information, visit www.pinnaclepointemediapsi.com
About Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. (PSI)
Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. offers an extensive continuum of behavioral health programs to critically ill children, adolescents and adults and is the largest operator of owned or leased freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities with more than 11,000 beds in 32 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. PSI also manages freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities for government agencies and psychiatric inpatient units within medical/surgical hospitals owned by others. For more information, please visit www.psychiatricsolutionsmedia.com
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