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We are here to teach leaders and other

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stakeholders . Um and , and actually

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get them together to hopefully uh

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address the issues that lead up to

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things like suicide and uh domestic

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violence , sexual assault , all of

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those things . Um As a Marine Corps ,

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we're great at responding to these

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events , but really , we're looking to

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get ahead of it um and prevent them

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from ever taking place . So being able

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to address what we would call

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protective factor , um build those in

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younger service members and , and even

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the well established ones , um and ,

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and allow them to build healthy coping

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skills that , that would hopefully

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prevent . Um but even if they do get to

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a place of feeling suicidal or , or

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maybe feeling hopeless about what's

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going on in their life that they know

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where to reach out , how to reach out .

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Um who , who they can talk to . Really ,

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the key is if we teach these skills

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early on , if we support them and

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educate service members with these

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things and not just the service members ,

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honestly , the spouses and families as

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well , um We can prevent a lot of these

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events from ever becoming serious and

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having a major impact on a career . But

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on top of that , if we keep them in the

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fight , you know , obviously that's the

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goal .