PROVIDENCE — A years-long effort to require suicide prevention training and awareness for all school personnel — from teachers to coaches to custodians — is making headway in the Rhode Island legislature. Nathan was a 15-year-old Portsmouth High School student when he took his life in 2018. The legislation was modeled in part on law, already in place in other states, that was first passed in Tennessee in 2007 after Jason Flatt, a 16-year-old from Nashville, died by suicide. In 2019, Nathan's father, Rick Bruno, begged a R.I. legislative committee to spare other parents his pain. â€...