suicide prevention – Melinda Tankard Reist

‘I couldn’t get help for my 9 year old who tried to take his life’: mother shares horror story of inadequate services for son

Suicide rates for young Australians double in a decade This report on ABC News yesterday, ‘Suicide rates for young Australians highest in 10 years, researchers call for new prevention strategies’, reveals the distressing situation regarding the numbers of young people wanting to end their lives. In my talks in schools around the country, young people […]

ABC 4 Corners lifts the lid on suicide’s anguish: a must-watch program for all who care about young people

One suicide is a tragedy. But what happens when a community is rocked by a series of suicides, one after another, all of them young people? Do the families mourn in private, fearful that expressing their grief publicly could result in more deaths? Or does the community come together, so that individual families can tell […]

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‘I couldn’t get help for my 9 year old who tried to take his life’: mother shares horror story of inadequate services for son

ABC 4 Corners lifts the lid on suicide’s anguish: a must-watch program for all who care about young people