Out of The Darkness Walk Scheduled for October 12th

Tuscaloosa's Walk is Sunday October 12th 2:00 at the Ferguson Center and then we will walk around the quad.

 The AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) is putting it on. You can go to their website afsp.org and sign up and register under the Tuscaloosa walk and under team Darla. Donate if you would like. We need to raise awareness!. Suicide is 100% preventable.

Out of The Darkness Walks focus on raising money and getting the awareness out for suicide prevention.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is the leading
national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding
and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to
reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.

There are some staggering statistics concerning suicide in the U.S. According to  The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's website, aspf.org:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data about mortality in the United States, including deaths by suicide. In 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), 38,364 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans.  In that year, someone in the country died by suicide every 13.7 minutes.