Weekly News Roundup Nov 13-19, 2021

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: Why Are More Black Kids Suicidal? A Search for Answers. – New York TimesNovember 18, 2021**Method warning** A study of high school students in the US found that Black adolescents […]

Weekly News Roundup June 22 – 28, 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: New Study Highlights COVID-19 Suicide Risk – Psychology TodayJune 27, 2020A newly released academic paper has highlighted four major risk factors for suicide during COVID-19, after examining suicide deaths during the […]

CASP Conference 2016

Last week, Centre for Suicide Prevention’s Mara Grunau and Robert Olson attended the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) Conference in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The focus of the conference was Hope, Help and Healing, and we were privileged to present on the work we do in making suicide research accessible to the general public. We had […]