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Women Producers
Coping Through
Small Support Groups
United Farmers USAManning, SC 29102
www.unitedfarmersUSA.org
Support Group
United Farmers USA (UFUSA) is a non-profit support organization that works within the community to develop the skills necessary to help the small farmer succeed.
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide a variety of outreach, education, technical assistance, mentorship and resources to assist new and beginning, limited resource, underserved farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, veterans and the unemployed by offering programs that include business, farm and financial management, and cooperative Marketing.
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OverviewFACTS
• Support Groups have been proven to help people overcome interruptions in life.
• Farmers across the United States and some foreign countries have the highest suicide rate.
• Support Groups will help women farm producers acknowledge they need help before deciding this is the end.
SATISTICS• Studies show American Farmers
suicide rate to be double the national average of everyone else .
• Farm suicides is 48% higher than any other profession.
• Australian Farmers has the highest than any other country.
• Indian Farmers continue to be on the rise with one every half hour and French one every two days.
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Overview
CAUSES OF SUICIDE• Depression• Cost of Supplies• Loans/unpaid debts• Feel a sense of loss• Paid less for more work• Work outside the home• Feel ashamed because they
are not self sufficient• Stress
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FAMILY
• It becomes a dream deferred.
• Separation, Divorce or Death of Spouse
• Kills the next generation’s hope
• Lose and/or Sell the farm
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Why Support Groups• They help farmers and their families manage
their feelings, life changes, daily choices and living on a farm. (Attack the root causes of emotional and relational problems)
• Give tools to be successful in a family, operate as a healthy member of a community and build relationships that help them break through into the highest dimensions of human growth.
• They are more effective than going to a counselor.
• Has a long term effect• Free in local communities
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Support groups are groups made up of farmers experiencing the same or similar situations. They help you to heal mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually by helping a person break free of defeating behaviors like depression, isolation, feeling guilty, anger, resentment and blame. They cause a person to reach within themselves to uncover the authentic person and proceed to do things differently. It helps them realize they are not Lone Rangers but Lone Rangers with Tonto.
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Who, Where and When
Who Can Do Support Groups Where Can they be held and whenFarmers, ranchers, forest
landowners, veterans, and youth Community
Centers
On the Farm
Any Day of the Week
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How we go started• Saw the need• Change in Family Structure• Changes that started after Hurricane Hugo• Sought a Professional• Begin to Implement (Hosted a Farmers Meeting)• Once a month with seasoned farmers• Now new & beginning farmers, ranchers, forest
landowners, veterans, unemployed and youth
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Do you have these symptoms in your everyday life?
Are You….• Depressed about farm life• Angry because you feel you
made a mistake• Dealing with overwhelming
emotions• Ongoing grief of a love one
who may have committed suicide
• Struggling as a single parent• Struggling in your marriage• Finances weighing you down
• Dealing with a long-term illness
• Isolating yourself from love ones and relationships
• Lacking trust• Feeling detached• Unable to set boundaries,• Making poor choices• Hopelessness
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Supports GroupsPresents an Opportunity
Opportunity to Change
Confidential
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QUESTIONS???????
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ROLE-PLAY
Could you be the missing link?
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United Farmers USAP. O. Box 243
Manning, SC 29102843-319-7212
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