Bill Text: NY J00448 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim March 1, 2019, as Self-injury Awareness Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-02-27 - ADOPTED [J00448 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J00448-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 448

BY: Senator BIAGGI

            memorializing  Governor  Andrew  M.  Cuomo  to
        proclaim March 1, 2019, as Self-injury Awareness Day
        in the State of New York

  WHEREAS, It is the custom of  this  Legislative  Body  to  recognize
official  days  that  are set aside to increase awareness of issues that
affect the lives of citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and  in  full  accord  with  its
long-standing  traditions,  it  is the sense of this Legislative Body to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo  to  proclaim  March  1,  2019,  as
Self-injury  Awareness Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with
the observance of National Self-injury Awareness Day; and

  WHEREAS, Self-injury Awareness Day strives to educate people who  do
not self-injure, and reach out to people who do; and

  WHEREAS,  Self-injury  or self-harming is when a person deliberately
hurts themselves physically to deal with the  emotional  pain  they  are
suffering such as low self-esteem, trauma, perfectionism and abuse; and

  WHEREAS,  Each  year, more than two million cases of self-injury are
reported  in  the  United  States;  90%  of  self-injury  starts  during
adolescence  around the age of 14, however, people of both sexes and all
ages, races and backgrounds may self-harm to protect themselves; and

  WHEREAS, It is essential that there be greater public  awareness  of
self-injury  and  self-harming;  awareness  leads  to  understanding and
empathy, banishing judgment and fear, and reducing the number of  people
who feel alone and suffer in silence; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo  to  proclaim  March  1,  2019,  as
Self-Injury Awareness Day in the State of New York; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.