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As a result of farmer suicide, research on farmers’ mental health increased sharply with a focus on financial difficulties farms faced during the 1980s and depression. [97] A spotlight on rural mental health and specifically on farmers led to calls for more mental health access in rural communities along with government action.
Rural areas of Ohio have some of the highest rates of suicide state-wide, according to the Ohio Department of Health. [28] Three farmers from the close-knit community of Georgetown committed suicide between mid-2015 and 2017. [3] Several initiatives have been launched to combat the problem, including the "Ohio's Got Your Back" campaign. [28]
This golden age was cut off shortly afterwards, though, as the OARDC suffered from the state's need to cut expenditures and merged with the Ohio State University in 1982 due to funding problems. After a decade of continued financial woes, the OARDC experienced a resurgence in the 1990s with the help of new director, Thomas Payne, and new funding.
For more than 2 million Ohioans, affordable health care remains out of reach. In 2021, the families of roughly 1 in 5 people – or 2.2 million Ohioans – spent more than 10% of their annual ...
'Risk of death by suicide': Ohio farmers can now access mental-health resources 24/7 'Springs have run dry' The rolling hills of southeastern Ohio are prime land for livestock producers.
Baldemar Velásquez (born February 15, 1947) [1] is an American labor union activist.He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.He was named a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the "Genius Grant") in 1989, and awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1994, the highest honor Mexico can bestow on a non-citizen.
Nancy Crow and her husband, John Stitzlein, live on a 218-acre farm in Liberty Township in northern Fairfield County, one that grows thick with hay and corn and soybeans and memories.. A 1,000 ...
Farmers Insurance Group (informally Farmers) is an American insurer group of vehicles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance has more than 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and approximately 21,000 employees.