Weekly News Roundup Nov. 23 – 29, 2020

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: In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020 – CNNNovember 29, 2020Japan has released suicide data to indicate that there have been […]

Weekly News Roundup Oct. 26 – Nov. 1, 2020

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: UCP gives $220K for local suicide prevention effort  – Medicine Hat NewsOctober 29, 2020The provincial government has announced they will be giving $200,000, earmarked for suicide prevention efforts, to CMHA-Medicine Hat. […]

Research Roundup – January 2020

This is a summary of the latest significant Canadian (🇨🇦) and international suicide research we collected in the past month: Kaufman et al. (2020).Effects of increased minimum wages by unemployment rate on suicide in the USA. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 0, 1-6. DOI: 10.1136/jech-2019-212981An American study examining the effect of the minimum wage on […]

Weekly News Roundup August 6 – 11, 2019

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: Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide is part of a larger problem in American jails: experts – GlobalAugust 11, 2019Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide last week while in prison awaiting trial. Suicide is […]