After months of watching civil rights demonstrations through the country and on the streets of Jacksonville at times even participating themselves the students were surprised when in February the school district didn t seize the opportunity to use Black History Month as an education tool to drive lessons about local racial justice movements and Black history.
Instead, the school district launched its own inaugural month-long campaign for mental health and suicide awareness called You Matter Month. While that campaign had its own issues because it encouraged students to #TakeOffYourMask during a global pandemic, some students worried the language minimized Black Lives Matter campaigns and hijacked the attention from the sole month annually centered around Black lives.
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North Dakota Human Services’ Behavioral Health Division enhancing suicide prevention efforts in the state
Grants are available for local government organizations, community nonprofit or private organizations and tribal nations to further suicide prevention efforts in the state. 10:03 am, Feb. 23, 2021 ×
The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ Behavioral Health Division announces grant funding opportunities for local government organizations, community nonprofit or private organizations and tribal nations to further suicide prevention efforts in the state. The 2021 North Dakota Suicide Prevention Grant Program will support the implementation of prevention efforts aimed at decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors for groups at high risk for suicide.
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February 18, 2021
We’ve seen disturbing news stories on tragic spikes in youth suicide across the months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, coronavirus and its aftermath have been more difficult on even the strongest among us than most anticipated. So of course, it would not be surprising to find it affecting our young people in such dramatic ways.
At the dawn of the COVID-19 outbreak, a physician from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital in New York City, writing in “QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
There is a high probability that suicide rates will increase in many countries of the world. This problem may be especially difficult in the US. Suicide rates have been steadily growing in the USA over the last two decades.