During her son’s high school years, Judy Buonauro never suspected that what seemed like typical adolescent angst could one day be life-threatening for her child Michael. That fated day came in ...
Tag Archives: suicide prevention
Community alliances
To boost student academics through enhancing emotional health and overall well-being, schools have a host of community resources they can tap into. When Florida Supt. Heather Fiorentino felt ...
Evolving crisis plan
A high school student in Menasha, Wisconsin possessed athletic prowess that allowed him to excel in every sport he touched and people skills that propelled him to class president also had ...
Crisis plan should evolve
Static is not a word that describes the Horace Mann Middle School Crisis Plan; proactive and evolving are more accurate. “We keep our eyes and ears open and constantly review our crisis plan, its ...
Reinventing yourself
After a 40-year career in broadcasting followed by thoughts of suicide in 1997, Dave Robinson is now a senior peer counselor in Sacramento, Calif. “I went to zero,” he recalls of that low time in ...
School success
Enhancing academics through prevention It’s a troubling thought, one that adults may have a tough time comprehending. The idea that a young person, supposedly in the “prime of their life,” could ...
Coming tsunami
“The current mental health delivery system is inadequate and unprepared to address the needs associated with the anticipated growth in the number of older persons requiring treatment for ...
Dispelling denial
Increasing treatment-seeking behaviors H. Westley Clark will never forget the day in 1963 when a young man in his Detroit neighborhood shot himself. “I didn’t understand why he would do that. ...
Physician education is key
Physician education in depression prevents suicide. So does restricting access to lethal means. This is borne out by a comprehensive review of research literature from 1966 to June 2005 for ...
Stealing our future
Suicide is a preventable tragedy. It is a thief that seeks victims from all races, socioeconomic classes and age groups, even America’s youth. Newly released data from the 2004 National Survey on ...