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Rafferty founded Youth ERA in Eugene, Oregon under the name Youth Move Oregon (Youth MVO) in 2009, when he was 22 years old. Youth ERA provides youth mental health services in areas such as peer support, crisis response, and suicide prevention.
Michael A. Lindsey. Michael Anthony Lindsey (born January 13, 1972) is an American scholar, college administrator and researcher in social work and public health who specializes in child and adolescent mental health, and has conducted key research about Black teenage suicide in the United States and related behaviors in adolescents. [1]
Suicide. According to a 2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14, and the third leading cause of death for those between 15 and 25 [1] In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of ChiId and Adolescent Psychiatry, and ...
Papyrus UK. Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide, also known as Papyrus UK, is a British charity which aims to reduce the number of suicides among young people. [1] It was founded in 1997 by a group of parents whose children had taken their own lives. [2]
In the weeks following Benedict’s death, the Rainbow Youth Project, a national LGBTQ nonprofit focused on youth suicide prevention, saw a 238% increase in crisis calls from Oklahoma.
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. Amongyouth, attempting suicide is more common among girls; however, boys are more likely to ...
The Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, announced it is leaving X following “the increasing hate & vitriol on the platform."
The Action Alliance works on the 2001 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and is an outgrowth of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. The Action Alliance initially focused on three high-risk populations: LGBT youth, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and military/veterans.