Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, 2008. Title II of the Broadband Data Improvement Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in Oct. 2008, and having a direct impact on classrooms nationwide. ...
Posts by Category: Suicide and School-Age Youth
Curbing violence
The school shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown has once again focused attention on how to make schools safe for students and staff. “There is an increasing sense of ...
Bullying prevention
Increasingly, there’s a blurring between online and offline bullying. Today it’s about bullying in the Digital Age. We need to quit trying to separate cyber- from in-person bullying. We’re also ...
“That teacher saved my life”
“If I die, I can’t be a surgeon” Mady Schmidt Age: 17 School: Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming Loss to suicide: My brother’s name was Evan. He was 8 years older than ...
Student athlete risk
Sports provides a great chance to celebrate excellence, learn about setbacks, and overcome diversity. Yet sports can stress players—beyond how high they jump or how fast they run. For 15- or ...
Student athletes
He was a tackle for the Tongue River High School varsity football team—a high school athlete who loved football and had played for seven seasons, since he was in Little Guy Football in 5th grade. ...
Sports and suicide
What coaches and athletic trainers should look for Middle school, high school and college coaches play a unique role in watching for signs of emotional distress in student athletes. These could ...
Young children
How young is too young? It’s a compelling question that arises time and again among adults seeking to safeguard youth from suicide: how young is too young to initiate dialogue with children that ...
Upstream prevention
“Keep in mind that half of the 18,000 hotline calls I have received (since 1988) from school crisis team members have come from elementary schools!” —RICHARD LIEBERMAN, PhD, SUICIDE PREVENTION ...
A miracle result
In the summer of 1999, a few months after the Littleton tragedy, I met Dr. Shep Kellam at a special meeting called by the Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, the Director of the National ...