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  2. National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention - Wikipedia

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    The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention ( Action Alliance) is an American suicide prevention organization coordinating national efforts to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP). It is a public/private partnership that, according to them, "catalyzes planning, implementation, and accountability for updating and ...

  3. Schools, providers increase focus on youth suicide prevention ...

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    The state's overall suicide rate in 2021, the most recent figure available, was ranked fourth in the nation with 533 deaths, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

  4. Youth suicide - Wikipedia

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    Suicide. Youth suicide is when a young person, generally categorized as someone below the legal age of majority, deliberately ends their own life. Rates of youth suicide and attempted youth suicide in Western societies and other countries are high. Youth suicide attempts are more common among girls, but adolescent males are the ones who usually ...

  5. Teenage suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people in the United States from the ages of 9 to 56. [1] In the United States, for the year 2005, the suicide rate for both males and females age 25 and below was lower than the rate for ages 26 and up. [2] The death rate from suicide for teenagers peaked in 1980 for females and 1994 for males. [3]

  6. Idaho is in a quiet youth suicide and mental illness crisis ...

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    Nationally and in Idaho, there is a movement to reduce the stigma of suicide through awareness campaigns, 988 crisis lines and prevention training. Where there continues to be a gap is in the ...

  7. Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide - AOL

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    Laura Echevarria, a spokeswoman for National Right to Life, which opposes such laws, warned that without a residency requirement, Oregon risked becoming the nation's “assisted suicide tourism ...

  8. Suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Suicide is a major national public health issue in the United States. The country has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy nations. [1] In 2020, there were 45,799 recorded suicides, [2] up from 42,773 in 2014, according to the CDC 's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). [3] [4] [5] On average, adjusted for age, the annual U.S ...

  9. Why are suicides rising in the Black community? We talk with ...

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    Jewel Woods: There's a structural difference [in suicide] between white males and Black males. For white males, when they get older, 55 years old and above, that's when the likelihood of suicide ...