Tag: black children

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Here’s Why Experts Think Suicides Dropped During The Pandemic – BuzzFeed NewsNovember 12, 2021Suicide rates in the US dropped for the second year in a row in 2020, according to […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis For Communities Of Color – Science FridayAugust 20, 2021**Method warning** In the US in 2020 many communities saw a decrease in the suicide rate for […]

This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian (🇨🇦) and international suicide research we collected in the past month: Opara, I., et al. (2020). Suicide among black children: An integrated model of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide and intersectionality theory for researchers and clinicians. Journal of Black Studies. 1-21. doi.org/10.1177/0021934720935641An important study of the rise […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Fiddler walking from La Ronge to Regina to protest suicide prevention bill rejection – Humboldt JournalJuly 6, 2020Métis fiddler Tristen Durocher is leading a group of protesters from La Ronge to […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: ‘We’re losing our kids’: Black youth suicide rate rising far faster than for whites; coronavirus, police violence deepen trauma – USA TodayJune 7, 2020In the US, there is a disproportionate COVID-19 […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Did ’13 Reasons Why’ lead to a spike in adolescent suicides? Researchers are divided – CNNJanuary 18, 2020A new study looking at whether or not the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Suicide attempts by black teens are increasing, study says – CNNOctober 14, 2019From 1991 to 2017, the suicide rate for African American teenagers rose as the rate for teenagers in other […]

Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: First Nations suicide rate 3 times higher than for non-Indigenous people: StatsCan – Global June 30, 2019Statistics Canada has released data looking at the suicide rate of Indigenous people from 2011-2016, and […]

Hello Friends, Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Suicide rates for black children twice that of white children, new data show – Washington Post May 21, 2018 A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics has found that, […]

Hello Friends, Every day we scan news headlines and social media for items of interest to the field of suicide prevention. Here’s what we found last week: Suicides, drug addiction and high school football – New York Times March 11, 2018 This article chronicles the many suicides in a small town, Madison, in Indiana. The county […]