Tag: Media Guidelines

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: Featured:Run for Life – CTV CalgaryFrom September 19-26, Centre for Suicide Prevention hosted the 4th annual Run for LIfe, a virtual event encouraging people to do any activity throughout the […]

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: Preventing physician suicide – American Medical AssociationSeptember 17, 2021Physicians are at higher risk for suicide and thoughts of suicide than those in the general population. Among physicians, thoughts of suicide […]

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: Featured:World Suicide Prevention Day – Centre for Suicide PreventionWorld Suicide Prevention Day is a day to remember those we’ve lost to suicide and raise awareness for how suicide can be […]

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: Reporting guidelines reduced number of suicides: study – Korea HeraldJuly 25, 2021In South Korea in 2013, under the ‘suicide prevention law,’ media guidelines for reporting on suicide were revised by […]

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: ‘I’ll never be the same again’: Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall talks for the first time about the suicide of her beloved brother – and reveals how walking for […]

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: Featured: Calgary Herald Christmas Fund 2018 campaign raises close to $750,000 – Calgary Herald March 15, 2019We were honoured by the Calgary Herald this year by being one of the twelve […]

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: Featured: Canada Suicide Prevention Service temporarily ceases text and chat help; seeks more funding – IT World Canada August 1, 2018 Centre for Suicide Prevention’s Mara Grunau spoke with […]

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: How many opioid overdoses are suicides? – NPR March 15, 2018 Many US states are still working out how to differentiate suicide deaths from opioid deaths, as it can sometimes be […]

This is a statement regarding the recent Netflix release, 13 Reasons Why, which follows the story of a young girl who dies by suicide. The Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) is concerned that the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why novel does not follow the Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention and the American […]