•Title: “Reduce Suicide Attempts By Adolescents”. •Dates

Suicide has been rising at alarming rates; the overall suicide rate for children and adolescents has increased over 300% since the 1950s. (Miller, 2009) Adolescent children are screaming out for our help, are we just ignoring the signs or do we not care? For young people, an average 1,800 take their own lives and 85,000 are hospitalized for attempts nationally (CDC, 2008). With this kind of statistics we need to step in and take some action.

Annotated Bibliography Holland, Kristin, et al. "Antecedents of Suicide among Youth Aged 11-15: A Multistate Mixed Methods Analysis." Journal of Youth & Adolescence, vol. 46, no. 7, July 2017, pp. 1598-1610.

Kutner, Max. "Teen Suicide Is Contagious, and the Problem May Be Worse Than We Thought;

First Last Mr. XXXXXXXX English 9 - Period 7 March 4, XXXX Teen Suicide Suicide is a major problem worldwide; especially for teenagers. Self image plays a big roll in American society today, especially in enabling someone to make a wrong and destructive decision like suicide. Self image and low esteem effect the chances of a teenagers suicide greatly. There are many events that lead up to a young persons suicide, for instance a little problem that seems inescapable which manifests themselves into overwhelming burdens. Detection and prevention are both key for adults and young people to stop suicide from happening.

Problem: Too many Veterans commit suicide. As of 2014, Veterans have a twenty-one percent higher risk of suicide than U.S. civilian adults. Veterans Affairs [VA], (2016). Fact Sheet Suicide Prevention.

Intro Have you ever been through a tough situation and felt like there was no solution? Many people do and unfortunately many people also solve their solution by ending their life. In fact, every 13 minutes, someone commits suicide in the U.S (http://www.save.org/). Whether your friends or acquaintances, chances are you will know someone who has committed suicide. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. Urban Meyer, current coach of the Ohio State football team, once stated, “Are you going to be the problem or the solution?” An organization known as the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) has decided they will be the solution to suicide.

1.1 Aim The aim of this report is investigate the impacts of youth suicide and how it can be prevented. 1.2 Parameter To investigate the impacts of youth suicide in Australia and USA and how it can be prevented 1.3 Thesis Society should take notice of signs of youth suicide such as depression and reduce

If I wanted to help decrease the rate of teenage suicide, I would interview suicide survivors and people who had tried to commit suicide but didn't. I would interview them about what led them to the decision that they wanted to commit suicide, but then ask about all the good things that have happened to them since they decided not to or were not able to complete it. I would want them to spend a lot of time describing their hardships and how they felt that the pain was inescapable and how they felt like everyone might be better off without them, and then I would want them to spend a longer time describing the happiness that they have experienced and all the little things that make them happy now. For example, maybe one of the survivors talks

The community impact, which includes national, state, and community level, is crucial for suicide prevention in adolescents. By having the community involved, it allows a more effective prevention plan, along with measures on how to properly handle the situation more efficiently. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Everything you share it stays online it you will never be able to un-see it. The Internet is a really damaging thing that’s what leads these teens to suicide. There are more deaths not than ever.

The methodology used for this research investigation first consisted of posing a question related to the class texts. After, having a conversation with Mrs. Alcala, discussing my topic, I had decided to do my essay on the two-spirit. Doing my research I had a hard time looking for my information and credible sources, so I changed my topic to teen suicide. Starting my essay with the hook, I was trying to write a false story that I ended up revising about 3 times. For the research online about teen suicide I looked for the statistics of how much suicide has increased over the years, shocking to say it has became normal for teen to suicide now days and an article to support my essay. Doing the link for my first CEL paragraph

Youth Suicide Introduction Suicide is a tragic event. It has a profound personal effect on all associated with the person who died. Families, friends and society as a whole are affected. There is a particular poignancy when the suicide is

Introduction I will be covering youth suicide its risk factors and give warning signs to those who are at risk, I will include a case study that was done to in helping with the prevention of this growing problem we are facing because of the many struggles we are facing today. The purpose of this paper is to research youth suicide. In this paper I plan to cover the basics of youth suicide, who is affected, warning signs to look for, how to help those with dealing with this issue and several research studies on youth suicide.

Suicide Prevention Week Keynote Event: A Call For Further Action Three people in my life have completed suicide; my uncle, my mom’s late fiance, and my step brother on my dad’s side, within four years of each other. I’ve witnessed each parental figure in my life become compromised by grief and the inevitable pain accompanying it, and I’ve seen the way depression can plague someone so deeply, even without the ending of suicide. The prevalence and growing numbers of deaths by suicide calls for a revised manner of education on all mental illnesses and the preventative measures one can take to reduce risk. Initially, when I heard of the Suicide Prevention Week Keynote event with Jamie Tworkowski (founder of ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’) I was thrilled. Hosting such an event on a college campus, presenting to a population greatly affected by mental illness, is demonstrative of the steps that should be taken toward raising awareness. Any opportunity for a comprehensive view on mental health and its significance is one to be taken advantage of. However, as the night proceeded, I did take note of several things that would improve the layout of any future events, as well as further deepen an individual’s comprehension of mental illness.

Introduction This paper will survey the reasons for the unusually high suicide rates found specifically in South Korea. There are many different factors that contribute to suicide such as depression, certain cultural values, the educational system and more. It will begin with the rates of suicide found in the country versus the average suicide rate in other countries. We will further go in depth to discover how various reasons for depression and cultural values have impacted the youth. It will also describe the rigor and intensity of the educational system in present day Korea and its effects on the youth. It will also continue onto exploring the culture and how that correlates back to the high suicide rates by exploring further into the