Teen Suicide

Parents Volunteer For 'Track Watch' After Teen Suicides

Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact


NPR reported this morning on suicide clusters, where a group of peers, mostly teenagers, take their own lives in a relatively short period of time. In...

Is Teen Suicide Contagious?

AOL | David Knowles | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home


Over the past six months, four students at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, Calif., have committed suicide in the same location, using the same...

Boy Interrupted: Interview with Filmmaker Dana Perry

Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment


Regina Weinreich

The documentary film Boy Interrupted not only tells the story of a 15-year-old's death by suicide, but it also tells the story of a mother's anguish dealing with her son's lifelong disease of bipolar mental disorder.

Who Needs the Brothers Grimm When We Have Teen Screen?

Anne Dunev | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living


Anne Dunev

The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.

At The Apex Of Politics And Entertainment

Paige Donner | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics


Paige Donner

Chad Griffin, partner at Griffin:Schake, was just named one of the Top 20 People of The Year by the Advocate. Chad Griffin, the Advocate's Top 20 ...

Urging "Revolution," Palin's Religious Charity Evangelizes in Schools

Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


Bruce Wilson

Palin is on the advisory board of a publicly supported Christian nonprofit which states its mission is evangelizing and runs "Religion related-spiritual development" suicide prevention programs in Alaskan public schools.