Gerald Lee Smith

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-118
Keyword(s):  
Lee Smith

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

scholarly journals Impact of the Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Program on Suicide Mortality

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 986-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Hailey Reid ◽  
David B. Goldston ◽  
Richard McKeon
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Suicide Mortality ◽  
Youth Suicide ◽  
Lee Smith

Lee Smith: A Diamond from the Rough

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Byrd Cook
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Southern Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Only Child ◽  
Southern Writers ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Black Mountain

This chapter discusses Lee Smith's fiction, which consistently probes the crises of identity that plague so many contemporary Americans, particularly women. Born on November 1, 1944, in the southwestern Virginia coal-mining town of Grundy, Lee Smith was an only child and a voracious reader. Smith recalls that growing up in Grundy, she consciously tried to conform to the image of an aspiring southern “lady.” Initially Smith wrote about romantic and foreign subjects, but after encountering Eudora Welty's work in a southern literature course, she realized the importance of writing from one's experience. Like other members of her generation of southern writers, Smith creates a full, complex world of characters who confirm some stereotypes and transcend others. Her novels include The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (1968), The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed— Something in the Wind (1971), Fancy Strut (1973), Black Mountain Breakdown (1980), Family Linen (1985), Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), Saving Grace (1995), and On Agate Hill (2006).

At Home in This World

James Still ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Boggess
Keyword(s):  
Lee Smith ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
Wendell Berry ◽  
At Home

This chapter discusses the last decade of Still’s life during which he published five books, including The Wolfpen Notebooks; River of Earth celebrated its 50th anniversary; and Still was named Poet Laureate of Kentucky. He made an important new connection in Ted Olson who later would collect and edit his poems and stories. He strengthened friendships with writers Wendell Berry and Lee Smith, and influenced a range of younger writers including among others: George Ella Lyon, Chris Offutt, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson, and Silas House.

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