LESA Finishes 2020 Well Positioned for Growth and Gives Back to Community after Challenging Year
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Grants $5,000 to Charities; Launches Contest to Benefit Dealership Partners
As we approach the end of 2020, it gives me great pleasure to announce $5,000 in contributions to several noteworthy charities along with our latest video contest. MANCHESTER, Conn. (PRWEB) January 01, 2021 LiveEventStream Automotive (“LESA” or the “Company”), the number-one provider of high definition full-motion automotive inventory video, today announced that it has donated, in aggregate, $5,000 to charities this holiday season as it completes its 9th year in business. Five organizations each received $1,000 from LESA: St. Jude s Children Hospital, the International Rescue Committee, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Salvation Army, and Loaves & Fishes, a local Chicago-area food pantry for which Cars.com (NY
By Bethany Ao
The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
PHILADELPHIA - New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the national suicide rate last year decreased for the first time since 1999.
While the suicide rate for 2019 declined by 2.1 percent - a total of 833 fewer deaths - from the previous year, experts said this progress could be derailed by the coronavirus pandemic. The effects of COVID-19 on suicide won’t be measurable for some time, but rates are expected to have increased during 2020 as mental health worsened.
“We don’t know why it happened,” said Dan Romer, research director at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in media and social influences on adolescent health. “The decrease didn’t happen so much in the Western part of the country, which has the highest rates, and among certain age groups. That’s why we don’t see much reason for optimism.”
Since the arrival of the pandemic, including the stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines, anxiety and depression have become more and more prevalent across the country, leading some experts to worry about a rise in suicides.
Though local mental health professionals and suicide prevention workers say theyâve seen signs the pandemic is straining peopleâs mental health, suicides in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties donât appear to be increasing.
Last year saw 40 reported suicides in St. Joseph County with 41 reported in 2018 and 37 in 2017, according to data from the county coronerâs office. Through the end of November this year, there have been 37 reported suicides in St. Joseph County.