{"id":38628,"date":"2025-04-25T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38628"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:11:26","slug":"suicide-mortality-review-team-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38628","title":{"rendered":"Suicide mortality review team approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a measure April 25 that creates a team to gather and analyze data on deaths by suicide in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32948\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32948\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator George C. Dungan III. District 26. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668445841&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;115&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenDungan_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. George Dungan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. George Dungan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32948\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. George Dungan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDungan_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. George Dungan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB414, introduced by Lincoln Sen. George Dungan, the review team will be housed within the state Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Members will include representatives from the Nebraska Violent Death Reporting System, Nebraska Local Outreach to Suicide Loss Survivors and the state Department of Health and Human Services. The team also will include a veteran and appointed members from the fields of education, health care, law enforcement, mental health and social work.<\/p>\n<p>The team is required to:<br \/>\n\u2022 develop a suicide mortalities data collection system;<br \/>\n\u2022 develop protocols for suicide investigations;<br \/>\n\u2022 conduct an annual analysis of the incidences and causes of suicide in Nebraska;<br \/>\n\u2022 educate the public regarding suicide and the public\u2019s role in prevention; and<br \/>\n\u2022 study the adequacy of training and services to determine what can be done to decrease suicides.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB414 on a 46-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a measure April 25 that creates a team to gather and analyze data on deaths by suicide in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-38628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-george-dungan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38630,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions\/38630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}