一 | The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。 “把党员身份亮出来，将福彩温暖传出去。

二 | ”42岁的福彩销售站业主刘霄在街坊眼中是办事利落靠谱的“小刘”，拥有12年党龄的她，始终坚持立足平凡岗位践行党员使命，把初心融入每一张福利彩票、每一杯热茶与每一次贴心接待，以点滴服务播撒公益星火、传递暖心力量。抉择：党员本色，敢闯敢试“程老师，您的彩票打好了！”“姐，手机没电了？别急，我这有快充。”仲夏里的一天，室外气温已然飙升至31℃，但在刘霄清爽宜人的小店里，她的热情却丝毫不减。

三 | 听着邻居们那一声声常挂在嘴边的“小刘，靠谱！”她脸上总是漾着笑意，胸前的党徽也格外闪亮。

四 | 这份“靠谱”的口碑，源自两年前一次重要的人生抉择。彼时，刘霄还是一名经营困难、濒临破产企业的管理人员，面对窘境，她做出了一个大胆的决定——辞职创业。“离开奋斗多年的岗位，虽有万般不舍，但我想我是一名共产党员，要敢于面对困难迎接挑战，闯出一条路来！”回忆起当初的选择，她的语气依旧坚定。

五 | 机缘巧合下，刘霄了解到福彩“扶老、助残、救孤、济困”的发行宗旨和公益属性，便产生了强烈共鸣，于是决心投身福彩公益事业的大家庭。“经营福彩销售网点不仅是卖彩票，更是做公益，我要做的不仅是一名福彩销售网点店主，更是公益的一线宣传员，这份事业，值得我去干。”刘霄说。突破：迎难而上，精益求精创业从无坦途，从申请、选址到装修，刘霄事事亲力亲为、力求完美。开业初期，身为行业新人，专业术语与陌生的操作系统让她举步维艰，但她始终牢记党员身份，决心一定要把事业做好。她靠着一股敢闯敢拼的劲头，坚持当日事当日毕，利用空余时间钻研业务、每日复盘梳理，遇到难题便主动向福彩管理员李昕请教，不到三个月就攻克全部业务难点。“刚开店时，一些玩法我理解不透，我就第一时间打电话给管理员，他总是不辞辛苦 ‘手把手’地指导，碰到说不清的，更是赶到店里‘一对一’教我，直到我弄懂为止。还给我介绍了一些优秀网点的经验，让我受益匪浅。”说到管理员李昕的帮助，刘霄滔滔不绝，“他总是尽最大努力帮助我们店主，电话随打随接，问题更是及时处理，总怕回复慢了影响我们业务。”谈及刘霄小店的经营之道，李昕说：“从行业入门到学习政策技能，从日常积累销售经验到学习优秀网点运营策略，刘霄的努力与进步是有目共睹的。作为一名党员店主，她待人细心，服务周到，接受新事物快，沟通能力也很强，综合素质特别高。”正是这种“你用心经营，我全力托举”的双向奔赴，让刘霄的福彩事业蒸蒸日上。“管理员是福彩中心与网点销售员之间的桥梁和纽带，希望通过我们的共同努力，能让更多人了解福彩，把投身公益当作一种社会责任，帮助更多需要帮助的人。”李昕说。而刘霄也暗下决心，一定要把这份温暖与态度传递下去。诚信：立身之本，责任如山作为一名福彩人、一名党员，“诚信”二字重千钧，容不得半点虚假。“我的对得起福彩公益事业和胸前的党员徽章，绝不夸大宣传，绝不诱导大额投注。

六 | ”刘霄给自己立了规矩。曾有购彩者想下一笔几千元的大单，但刘霄却说：“大哥，咱们购彩，只是份期待，也是支持公益，图个乐呵，可千万别抱着‘一夜暴富’的念头。”这种以对方角度考虑的“劝退”，虽然少了一笔销售额，却赢得了这位购彩者长久的信任。从此，这位购彩者就成了刘霄小店的忠实拥趸。

七 | 这份诚信更隐藏在经营点滴之中：每晚开奖后，她都会逐一核对顾客留下的彩票，中奖即刻通知，未中奖也会暖心发送短信感谢大家助力公益；遇上顾客遗漏中奖信息，她也会主动提醒兑奖。

八 | 身为党员，她始终以责任、底线约束自身，认真对待每一张承载群众爱心与期盼的彩票，用心守护大家的信任，传递公益温度。用顾客的话说，“你这股实诚、认真劲儿，干什么都能成。

九 | ”服务：温情驿站，润物无声“不管是满身尘土的环卫工，还是拄拐的老人，进了这个门，就是我的服务对象。”刘霄把小店打造成了一间“温暖驿站”：免费茶水、充电服务、老花镜、便民雨伞、爱心软座等一应俱全。环卫工人空闲时进来歇歇脚喝口热水，她热情相待；邻居不会网上交水电费，她主动帮忙；面对老年顾客，她总是放慢语速，用最通俗、最接地气的言语耐心讲解；面对新手，她主动设置消费提醒，引导他们理性购彩。“党员的身份不是挂在嘴边的标签，而是落在实处的行动，要让群众真切地感受到党员就在身边。