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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (May 13, 2021) – As part of its mission to save lives through mental-health education, Attitudes In Reverse® (AIR™), a Princeton-based nonprofit, will host events i.
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Woodland Park exhibit focuses on young lives lost through suicide
Updated May 10, 2021;
277 pairs of shoes, 277 young lives lost.
Attitudes In Reverse, a Plainsboro-based nonprofit, will present its “In Their Shoes” exhibit for the first time since the pandemic began on Saturday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Dowling Gardens, 2 Dowling Parkway, in Woodland Park.
The exhibit will consist of 277 pairs of shoes to represent New Jersey residents ages 10-24 who took their own lives in the span from 2014 to 2016, according to the 2018 New Jersey Youth Suicide Report published by the state’s Department of Children and Families. Of that number, 196 were young men.
Published: 5/10/2021 4:31:50 PM
Callie Boisvert and Abbey Shumway are willing to share their struggles with mental health. But that wasn’t always the case.
Boisvert was bullied in her last two years of middle school and it led to what she called a suicidal depression. Instead of discussing with others how she was feeling, Boisvert kept it buried deep inside.
“I had no idea how to handle it,” she said. “I never really fully recovered from it. It affects me so much to this day.”
But Boisvert has seen changes in herself, especially after she started to be more open about how she was feeling – to her parents, friends and a counselor.