September is recognized as National Suicide Prevention Month. September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. Why are we discussing suicide prevention? Every 40 seconds someone dies by suicide and one in four adults know or care about someone who attempted or died by gun suicide. I don’t know if there are any accurate overdose statistics […]
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Youth Suicide Prevention Can Start With You
I had just been part of something remarkable, powerful and even life changing. It was three months ago that, in absolute frustration with the number of youth suicides, I spouted out on Facebook that I was going to have a youth suicide prevention conference. The increase of suicide rates in the young First Nations population […]
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If you have put in even as little as five to ten minutes research on suicide you would see the rates are astonishing. Some countries have more suicides than others. There are also certain groups or categories of people who, due to their histories, support systems and socio-environmental factors, are at a higher risk for […]
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