{"id":1240,"date":"2024-04-12T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2024-05-20T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:22:28","slug":"ncss-here-for-you-episode-self-harm-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/ncss-here-for-you-episode-self-harm-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"NCSS Here For You Episode &#8211; Self-Harm Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Guests:<\/u><\/strong>Aubrianna Mayette, Miss Northwestern Vermont\u2019s Teen 2024, and&nbsp;Dana Postemski, MA, BCBA, Master Clinician &amp; Board-Certified Behavior Analyst at NCSS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month of March was Self-Harm Awareness Month&nbsp;with the purpose of spreading awareness, breaking the stigma, and providing support and hope to those who have or currently self-harm.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, self-harm is also known as nonsuicidal self-injury and describes the act of purposely harming oneself; this act is often done by burning, cutting, pulling out hair, or picking at wounds to prevent healing. Self-harm indicates emotional distress and can lead to injury as severe as broken bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adolescents have been observed to have the highest rate of self-injury with the age of 13 being the first time they encounter this behavior.&nbsp; Recently, high school sophomore,&nbsp;Aubrianna Mayette introduced her Orange Ribbon Project to raise awareness about self-harm in our community.&nbsp; Today we\u2019ll hear about Aubrianna\u2019s journey and what she\u2019s doing to help others.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NCSS Here For You - Self Harm Awareness\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MbUP6wCPZ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests:Aubrianna Mayette, Miss Northwestern Vermont\u2019s Teen 2024, and&nbsp;Dana Postemski, MA, BCBA, Master Clinician &amp; Board-Certified Behavior Analyst at NCSS The month of March was Self-Harm Awareness Month&nbsp;with the purpose of spreading awareness, breaking the stigma, and providing support and hope to those who have or currently self-harm.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, self-harm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}