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Old 04-23-2013, 09:56 AM
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I hope that you will help with solving this problem. Watch the WFTV Vanessa Welch and Bob Opsahl Special and then get involved with this in some way. What are some solutions that you would recommend? I know there is a lot of wisdom among people on TOTV as well as Village residents.

I had pursued getting links to Victims Services resources in libraries since at least 2000 in Central Florida libraries as well as to libraries all over the US and even abroad. Gary Corsair, the Villages Daily Sun reporter, had even done an Memorial Day weekend article on my efforts with respect to Villages' area libraries back in 2007. Be one year about from Memorial Day (07) to Memorial Day (08)

Much more can be done. Since I have 4 degrees and two of these are in areas related to law and librarianship I have always seen education and access to information as keys to solving this problem.

The video shown last night on ABC in Orlando had other solutions. Cops' solutions come from other life experiences, teachers from another, journalists probably from yet another. Then there are individual histories that come into play.

Would like to know what you think?

Write the people involved with addressing this problem if you do have a solution. I plan to add my two cents about libraries and a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. Victim Services Directory Contact the libraries and Sheriff's Offices in the area about pertinent links from their respective web-sites.

Counseling and mental health links would also be very relevant IMHO.

If you do not live in Central Florida see how your Community stacks up in this area by doing various searches on victim services providers in your area and how much visibility they might have in your opinion.
Hope you will help with making suggestions on various local library and sheriff websites about making sure that help for the mentally ill like through groups like NAMI as well as marketing of the Florida Victim Services Directory are easily located by a user.

Sumter County Sheriff's Office, Florida

I looked at the Sumter County Sheriff's Office website today and did not find anything about the Florida Victim Services Directory nor anything about NAMI. http://www.nami.org/ Both resources that the Sheriff's Office IMHO should be actively engaged in making well known to the general public.