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Documentary Exploring Suicide To Be Shown At AFI Silver
You can check out the award-winning documentary about suicide at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center on Oct. 25.
From Silver Theatre: Showing of The S Word, a groundbreaking documentary that shatters the silence around suicide and reveals a movement of survivors from a cross-section of American fighting to change how we deal with our ultimate taboo.
When: Thursday, October 25. Film and community dialogue 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Where: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Admission is $5 per person and proceeds will go to crisis prevention and intervention services at EveryMind. To obtain more information and reserve a seat, please visit:http://bit.ly/TheSWord2018.
Why: A report recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that rates of death by suicide in the United States have risen by roughly 25 percent in the last few decades and it is now the second leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 24 in the United States.
Hosted by: The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, EveryMind, Suburban Hospital, Aventist HealthCare, Holy Cross Health, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, and Healthy Montgomery.
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