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Western ranchers, farmers confront mental health crisis as COVID-19 lingers
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Coupled with everyday worries about weather and commodity prices, the COVID-19 pandemic also has led to mental health challenges, including serious stress, anxiety and depression among farmers and ranchers, health officials said. Often, mental health providers are harder to come by in rural areas as well. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)AP
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By Vignesh Ramachandran and Eli Imadali, Kaiser Health News
KIOWA, Colo. The yellow-and-green facade of Patty Ann’s Cafe stands out on the main street of this ranching community just 25 miles from the Denver suburbs. Before the pandemic, the cafe was a place for ranchers to gather for meals and to swap stories.
Student helps create mental health site for farmers
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Madison Smith freely admits it’s not necessarily the academic journey she anticipated.
The recent graduate from the University of Georgia’s School of Social Work grew up on a small farm her grandfather operated in North Georgia. She initially thought she had left that life behind, but a project in the final year of her master’s degree program ultimately would marry them together.
Farmers in trouble
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, farmers in the U.S. have one of the highest rates of suicide for any vocational group. This sobering statistic is the primary driver behind a recently launched initiative between the School of Social Work and the American Farm Bureau Federation aimed at facilitating greater use of mental health resources for farmers and ranchers.
The personal account of Hank Hancock, a New Zealander whose ambition to fly jet fighters gained him a cadetship at the longest established air academy in the world. Described by Cranwell s Librarian and Archivist as the definitive College history of the 1950s, this is much more than an autobiography. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review: A highly informative account.whether the military enthusiast or just the everyday reader buys the book, it s a darned good read
Mr Guy Clapshaw, author and former RAF and NZ airline pilot, The New Zealand Herald daily newspaper, 22 February 1997 A very readable account.here you have everything you ever wanted to know about RAF Cranwell, and a lot, lot more