The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council. 

 Founded in Missoula, Montana. August 06, 2021. 

TIMELINE: January 05, 2022.

 Hate the fate. Reduce the rate.

Below are some recent statistics about MT's suicide crisis.

SEE: www.americashealthrankings.org

Subpopulations: Suicide, Montana, United States

RACE/ETHNICITY

Suicide - American Indian/Alaska Native

MT: 36.7

U.S.: 21.4

Suicide - White

MT: 25.9

U.S.: 18.1

Deaths per 100,000 population

Age

Suicide - Ages 15-24

MT: 36.8

U.S.: 13.9

Suicide - Ages 25-34

MT: 35.4

U.S.: 17.5

Suicide - Ages 35-44

MT: 30.0

U.S.: 18.1

Suicide - Ages 45-54

MT: 34.0

U.S.: 19.6

Suicide - Ages 55-64

MT: 29.3

U.S.: 19.4

Suicide - Ages 65-74

MT: 28.9

U.S.: 15.5

Deaths per 100,000 populatio

 

All of these statistics exceed what we see in most other states today. The large part of the problem is that highly unqualified health care officials occupy high ranking positions the state of Montana's system of public health care services. This fact has been a central issue in the work of The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council (MSRRC) since day one, August 06, 2021. And thanks to some networking with media resources at the national level, local to Montana media has now reported that this is huge problem in Montana today. Consistent with MSRRC's stance, people like Zoe Barnard and Karl Rosston have no business working in health care. They are the bad actors, and they must be brought to account. 

Introduction: The citizens of Montana face an inevitable fate. Suicide is a violent act, and it occurs in Montana at a rate higher than most other US states today. The impacts of this are on the citizens of Montana as a whole, all of whom are individual people with the vested interests of all. Referring to socio-economic status, and using terminology such as "rural areas" defies this fact. There are people using that language in the state of Montana's health department. 

Hopelessness is known as a core feature to: 

-severe depression, 

-suicidal ideation and intent, 

-actual deaths by suicide,

-all forms of self harm. 

Montana most entrusted suicide expert expresses defeatist language in his talking about the need for equitable access to health care services here in the state, including his own lack of critically needed vision by stating:

 

"I have a hard time imagining us 

ever having enough mental health services."

Karl Rosston. LCSW. MT DPHHS' 

"suicide prevention coordinator."

  

(See: "MT Kids Report high rate of sadness."

By Seaborn Larson, October 31, 2021.)

Discussion. Other rural state's manage their relationships to sucide very well, and for DPHHS to continually use the rural nature of Montana as an excuse is outright wrong on its face. Rosston's willful choice of language also creates an overwhelming sense of hopelessness in those regions of the state where suicide occurs most frequently. Which is to say, his actual language is dangerous to the health and welfare of our citizens, in that it furthers the crisis that he is entrusted to address, and directly contribution year in and year out to more MT citizens dying by suicide at an unabated and ever-increasing rate. It is readily evident that Rosston presumes he can get away with his failure to do far, far better in serving the citizens of Montana today. 

Karl Rosston 

This is the state of Montana so-called suicide expert. In this role, the citizens of Montana pay and expect this man to provide reasonable protections from the risks associated with suicide. However, his performance over the last 17 years has been as poor as that of his many, many predecessors over the last 80-100 years. A public health crisis that has grown worse with the passing of time. Montana citizens feel that this man needs to get out of the way and allow for a legitimate medical professional to oversee the suicide crisis in Montana. Evidence to this effect is central to The Montana Suicide Rate Reduction Council's always deepening data base, rural citizens who refuse to allow this man to speak for them on the simple basis that he is a bureaucrat working in the city of Helena, MT. He does this despite never having lived or worked in one of Montana's rural communities, and with direct regard for the true spirit of Montana's citizens, he needs to be sent packing and do that while he still can. Increasing attention to Rosston's miserable record is very much happening today, he and other high ranking health care officials in the state of Montana's health department who have been identified as grossly unqualified for such responsibility.  

 

“Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.” 

  (Robin Sharma.) 

In discussing a recent development specific to youth suicides in Montana,  Rosston said he's going watch the project "very closely". This is laughable on its face, in that we have been watching Rosston's so called expertise "very closely" for the last fifteen months, in attendance to the the far longer history of DPHHS, and therein lies failure through and through. And it is patently unacceptable to so much as talk about this when MT kids are committing suicide at 2X the national rate of youth suicides.

That said, Rosston needs to spend more of his time doing what the citizens of Montana expect of him, as spelled out in his own very real responsibilities. And in the meanwhile, we will continue to pay very close attention to everything and anything this man tries to get away with until this matter is resolved once and for all.

"You are in our spotlight, Karl. Due scrutiny of your miserable record of performance is now in effect, and we are more than happy to provide this to the citizens of Montana. This in 2016, this in 2022."
P. Jack Reed. Founder of MSRRC.

In considering the plain fact that these people- DPHHS highest level public health care officials- use textbook bureaucratic language as means to get away with spewing disinformation whenever the spotlight so much as touches upon them in the news, the issue itself goes beyond mere lack of qualifications. Rather, it  suggests a malfeasant use of language by which to cause harm, and this in itself is a matter of critical concern. Using such language as means to justify issues of this nature is arguably criminal, we see it in a vast range of circumstances whereby people in power seek to dupe the public. And it is also true that our founder and most of our members today have higher levels of education that any of these DPHHS officials. Plain fact, the reality of what is truth.