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PROCLAMATION
Truckee, California
WHEREAS, in 2021, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States;
and
WHEREAS, 48,183 Americans died by suicide, with 1,700,000 suicide attempts
nationwide in the same year; and
WHEREAS, California ranked 45th in the nation in suicide deaths. The rate of suicide in
California is 10.2 per 100,000 population, losing 4,148 individuals to this death of despair; and
WHEREAS, suicide ranked as the 13th leading cause of death in California, the third
leading cause of death for Californians ages 10 to 24, and the second leading cause of death
for ages 25 to 34; and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Truckee-Tahoe came together in 2013 to form the Tahoe
Truckee Suicide Prevention Coalition. In 2020, Tahoe Forest Hospital began implementing the
Zero Suicide framework to prevent suicide across the healthcare system. In 2020, the Tahoe
Truckee Unified School District established Hope Squads, a peer-to-peer suicide prevention
program at Alder Creek Middle School, North Tahoe School, Truckee High School, and North
Tahoe High School; and
WHEREAS, the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District’s Hope Squad students, who
were nominated by their peers as caring and trusted individuals, collectively planned and
facilitated activities throughout the week of March 11 -15 to promote hope throughout their
schools and into the community, which included hope and gratitude grams, hallway decorations,
mental health presentations, school visits from therapeutic dogs, a mental health literacy display
in the library, friendship bracelets, and generating a sense of hopefulness amongst their peers;
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed, by the Mayor of the Town of Truckee does hereby
recognize March 11-15 as Hope Week in the Town of Truckee.
Done this the 26th day of March 2024.
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David Polivy, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Kelly Carpenter, Town Clerk