How young is too young? It’s a compelling question that arises time and again among adults seeking to safeguard youth from suicide: how young is too young to initiate dialogue with children that ...
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Upstream prevention
“Keep in mind that half of the 18,000 hotline calls I have received (since 1988) from school crisis team members have come from elementary schools!” —RICHARD LIEBERMAN, PhD, SUICIDE PREVENTION ...
A miracle result
In the summer of 1999, a few months after the Littleton tragedy, I met Dr. Shep Kellam at a special meeting called by the Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, the Director of the National ...
WY governor weighs in
Our students face a complicated world in their journey toward maturity. That’s why I called together Wyoming stakeholders in our children’s well-being for the 2008 Governor’s Roundtable on ...
Escaping the pain
Consequences of bullying gone unchecked Written in fall 2002, these verbatim excerpts from a 7th grader who was bullied suggest a life of promise, happiness and potential. Jeffrey Scott Johnston ...
Health class curriculum
“Schools can really help by building depression, anxiety, impulsivity into regular biology or health classes,” says David Shaffer, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Columbia ...
In his words
To my family: I don’t understand how a loving God would allow my head to be filled with such terrible thoughts all the time. Ever since coming out of the hospital the world has seemed like ...