Close to 200 people in Juneau joined forces Thursday to break the link between childhood trauma and suicide. They’re taking part in a two day suicide prevention conference. Day one focused on establishing the trauma-suicide link.
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After analyzing data from state surveys on trauma and risky behaviors, Alice Rarig says she was taken aback.
“It shocked me to see that one in five young people think about suicide and that more than half of them have major problems with sadness or feeling alone or not having adults in their lives to talk to,” she says.
Rarig is a retired state health planner and a member of the Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition. She says she’s also troubled by the amount of youth who’ve experienced bullying, violence, sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences.
[For more of this story, written by Lisa Phu, go to http://www.ktoo.org/2015/06/18...hood-trauma-suicide/]
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