KRCC-FM at 3:56 PM MST

We hear them. Then the second thing we do, is, “What do you want to do about that? What do you want to do about that today?” Rather than tell them what we are going to do for them, or to them, or with them. We ask them “What do you want to do about it?”. A veteran speaking to a veteran. Helping a brother or sister through that process. Now with that said, that statistic we mentioned at the top here, has there been improvement, because of what Next Chapter is doing? So, it would be easy for me to claim that Next Chapter is the reason for the outcome. But again, as a wellness collaborative is a part of a community response. And it’s a community response we’ve now expanded into Pueblo County. In 2021 we had that staggering statistics of 52 lives. That represented about 32% of all suicide deaths in El Paso County. So the math is simple. You know, 1 in every 3 individuals to take their lives is a veteran. In the first 6 months that we operated, we reduced the number of actual deaths…