End the Stigma: RLHS Senior Will Oley Produces Powerful Video
By Denise Rivette
Red Lodge Fire and Rescue (RLFR) posted a link to the video End the Stigma, produced locally by Red Lodge High School senior and RLFR EMT Will Oley and featuring members of RLFR. The video begins with Montana’s unenviable ranking in suicide rates for the last several decades and presents a path to better outcomes. Recognizing that we all struggle and need help at times and also that we all have the ability to help others as well as providing an overview of how 988 can help in a time of crisis, this video does a lot for just being two minutes long.
On their social media, RLFR posted the following:
Red Lodge Fire Rescue has some enormously talented people as part of our organization. Will Oley, a senior at Red Lodge High School, is certainly one of them. In addition to being an EMT (as a senior in high school) he is also part of Business Professionals of America (BPA) at RLHS and produced this powerful video highlighting 988, the suicide and mental health crisis hotline, as his BPA project.
We are honored to have been part of his video and would like to share this message far and wide.