NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH

University of Missouri and local social worker/therapist studying high suicide by firearm rate in Shelby County

September 19, 2024 | By LINDA GIEST, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION

CLARENCE, Mo. – It’s harvest time in northeastern Missouri. Rows of corn furl their browned leaves up at the blazing sky in Shelby County, one of Missouri’s least-populated counties. Barely 6,000 residents live here, many of them on one of Shelby County’s 150 Missouri Century Farms recognized by University of Missouri Extension for being owned…