Jacie Estes
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Out of despair comes HOPE.
When Danielle Griffith's college business class was asked to pick a topic for a public-service campaign last semester, the choice was simple.
"Everybody in class just pinpointed it down to suicide. Every single student, that's the one they chose," she said.
Griffith and the rest of Ahmed Al-Asfour's Introduction to Business class at Oglala Lakota College collaborated with media professionals from the Black Hills chapter of the American Advertising Federation to fight the epidemic of youth suicide on the reservation by asking one question: "What does hope look like to you?"
The OLC class handed out 200 disposable cameras to students in grade schools and middle schools in three reservation communities and asked them to think about hope, define it and photograph it.
The result was 2,000 photographs, the best of which became the Lakota Voice Project, a grassroots anti-suicide campaign that looks for answers in the same place where the problem is most acute: the children of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
The teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150 percent higher than the national average. Children as young as 6 have reportedly tried to take their own lives. In 2009, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe declared a suicide state of emergency, and that emergency still exists today
http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifesty...cle_78bc54e9-9f0c-5b3d-916b-53878698ae59.html
When Danielle Griffith's college business class was asked to pick a topic for a public-service campaign last semester, the choice was simple.
"Everybody in class just pinpointed it down to suicide. Every single student, that's the one they chose," she said.
Griffith and the rest of Ahmed Al-Asfour's Introduction to Business class at Oglala Lakota College collaborated with media professionals from the Black Hills chapter of the American Advertising Federation to fight the epidemic of youth suicide on the reservation by asking one question: "What does hope look like to you?"
The OLC class handed out 200 disposable cameras to students in grade schools and middle schools in three reservation communities and asked them to think about hope, define it and photograph it.
The result was 2,000 photographs, the best of which became the Lakota Voice Project, a grassroots anti-suicide campaign that looks for answers in the same place where the problem is most acute: the children of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
The teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150 percent higher than the national average. Children as young as 6 have reportedly tried to take their own lives. In 2009, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe declared a suicide state of emergency, and that emergency still exists today
http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifesty...cle_78bc54e9-9f0c-5b3d-916b-53878698ae59.html
