My training includes a master's in educational counseling, which means I have a general degree in curriculum development and writing, as well as face-to-face counseling. I suppose some of this education generalizes to suicide cleanup. I'm sure my writing reflects my efforts in counseling work, though. I try to write informally. My interest in this degree field arose from teaching language arts (English and American Literature, reading, writing, critical thinking) at high school levels.

Since then I've tried to learn what I can about suicide, homicide, unattended death, and other behaviors reflecting the human condition. It happens that I've trained myself in power washing, carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, floor inspection, natural stone restoration and polishing, and home inspection.

So when horrible actions, events, and situations occur, call Eddie Evans to help return your family or friend's suicide scene to its previous biologically safe condition. Anytime of day or night, any day of the week or year, I'm here to respond for homicides, suicides, unattended deaths, accidents, and other events creating massive human blood loss. Animal issues are also remedied. My prices are fair and reasonable. Home owners insurance will often apply. I guarantee my work.

Claims adjusters and insurance agents may find my convenient for cleaning unusual and unexpected situations.

As a professional cleaner I'm a "niche cleaner." I reduce blood and other biohazardous materials from beds, furniture, carpet, and more.

As a biohazard cleanup technician cleaning challenges my imagination at times. Sometimes I'm challenged to move forward when something new and unseemly appears on a biohazard cleanup job.

So sometimes I ask myself, "Where do I begin and how should I move forward?" I know I'll succeed, but getting there takes time and fortitude.

I try to make sense out of the violent act that lead to suicide cleanup. This way I figure out where to test for debris and what to ignore. Sometimes the velocity of biological debris comes with surprises, like ricocheting objects. Following testing I can anticipate the breadth and depth of blood and other human effluents. I know too that in the last hours of cleaning, I will find debris previously missed. I expect this and must clean over and over at times.

In this way I recognize and clean blood contaminated furnishings, mattresses, walls, clothing, fans, books, electronics, dishes, and more.

I usually wear organic filters on my respirator. As I remove and cleanup blood soiled areas, I disinfect, flush, and red bagged materials. I take my respirator off and clean a little faster as work moves along. I'm used to the odors and at times do not pickup on death's fragrances.

Youth Suicide and Education

The worse of the worse suicide cleanup tasks follow child and youth suicides. I've written elsewhere about youth suicide cleanup. Fortunately, I've never been tasked for child suicide cleanup. When I say, "suicide cleanup's the most emotional type of death cleanup," my words fail to carry the gravity of these situations.

My background in public education reminds me so well of students and their problems. Teachers become aware of their studnets suicidal ideation through observation, listening, and reading their thoughts on paper. In fact, student writing assignments closely read reveal real insights into youghful minds.

Studnets rarely come right out and state what's going on. They work around their problems. Sometimes they note a problem belongs to someone else, but it is their problem.

For example, when a language arts teacher collaborates with school counselors or school psychologists, students' rights must be obseved. Just as important, a decision made early on to inform students' of their close scrutiny by school staff comes at some risk.

A covert form of observation initiated by teachers stumbling across student pleas for help shows one approach to helping studnets. A more direct an open approach goes much more deeply and directly to the root of youth problems. This approach occurs when teachers generate a trust in students by their genuine care and concern for students. I witnessed this affirmative teaching many times. So many times I've seen students approach a teacher to relate, emote, and seek help because of their teacher's genuine empathy for others.

Students under staff observation have left school, rather than remain under offical attention. They fear their peers will learn something "suspected" of them. They resent this "snooping" into "my busiiness," they have said.

Still, others feel a relief when staff, adults, place caring attention on them. An open field of conversation between staff and students with suicidal problems gives all "straight-talk" from those involved.

Students respond to this adult attention, especially when neglected in their home life. Positive peer pressure may follow as school staff "conspire" to direct suicidal students into school approaved activities. Activities with success built-in ensure positive reinforment for students unaccustomed to success and praise.

During these dire times of school budget cuts few programs for youth remain. Yet youth suicide grows with social and cultural influences.

Physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, and peer pressures show their part in youth suicide. In 2004 a suicide prevention bill called the "Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act," became law.

In passing this legislation, the U.S. Congress noted that "youth suicide is a public health tragedy linked to underlying mental health problems and that youth suicide early intervention and prevention activities are national priorities." At least our Congress has stated the problem. Now it needs to come up with the money for genuine student-centered programs.

What we do have in place, for the moment, is an idea that school psychology plays a role in turning our focus to positive behavior. Negative behavior casts students into a never ending turmoil between home and school. Included in this new approach we find collaboration with community resources and linking one to the other.  This linking becomes important for parent’s concerned about their child’s suicide risks.

A tier system helps to interlink resources. A  first tier as a universal, primary level allows all involved in a school setting to receive interventions directed toward students mental health. Emotional, behavioral, or academic problems receive attention at this first level of intervention. Positive outcome programs then begin to redirect negative student perceptions to posiitve students perceptions.

The second tier, a selected or secondary level, allows for a  more intense set of  interventions. This tier serves those students who do not respond well to to universal interventions as found in the first tier.

The third tier,  as indicated,  applies more individualized interventions for those students who do not respond  to  tiers 1 and 2, the universal and selected tiers. School psychologists use this framework as a public health approach to identifying trouble youth and useful responses to suicidal behavior among students.

We should not forget the rash of group suicides in the 1990s resulting from peer pressure alone. A tier system in place may have identified and aided those children feeling pressured by peers to commit suicide.

your city's schools alert to the tier system of suicide intervention may profit in unforeseen ways. Other issues besides suicide arise through these intervention strategies.

Some thoughts on corruption in the biohazard business. Some who read my comments here have heard of cronyism in crime scene cleanup. It exists full-blown in Orange County, California.

While writing these lines I remain without a single biohazard cleanup job in Orange County, California, for at least 10 months. Before then, I went well over a year. This means that I live in a county and clean less often at home then in the state of Texas.

Our Orange County Coroner's Department has totally saturated itself in corruption. As a result, grieving families must pay for kickbacks to referring county employees. This unethical, conflict of interest behavior reminds me of Russia and Mexico.

As a result of these crimes against tax payers, I have created Orange County Fraud to warn citizens of corner fraud. I have also created an Orange County Consumer Fraud web page to work along with my Orange County Cronyism pages.

I hope in this small way I can help grieving families avoid corrupt local government employees.

Eddie Evans

Biosafe