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New 988 hotline is the 911 for mental health emergencies  

Quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies is now as easy as 9-8-8.

The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline is now live. It’s designed to be as easy to remember and use as 911, but instead of a dispatcher sending police, firefighters or paramedics, 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors.

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Celebrating Jean, Remembering Jordan  

 Live long enough, come to know enough people, and eventually suicide will touch your life. Perhaps it’s just a friend of a friend. Perhaps it’s someone you knew in high school. Perhaps it’s someone closer. Perhaps it’s someone much closer. 

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A USA Today Feature Series
"Stepping Back from the Edge"


My mom’s suicide changed everything. Here's how I found hope again.

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Suicide is one of the nation's top killers. When will we start acting like it?

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A Message from USA Today Editor-in-Chief  Nicole Carroll: We Need to Talk About Suicide More

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From the Archive:
A FEATURE ON THE FOUNDING OF OUR SUPPORT GROUP, FROM THE HENDERSON VIEW FROM MAY OF 2016


In 1993, Henderson resident Linda Flatt looked for a support group to help her deal with her son’s suicide. She didn’t find one. “I went to a general grief group, and I felt completely out of place,” she said. “I was in there with people that had lost their (spouses) after 60 years of marriage, and my kid had ended his life on purpose.”

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A State of Despair
The Las Vegas Review-Journal investigates the alarmingly high suicide rates in Nevada and the West, known as "The Suicide Belt."

It’s called the “suicide belt” — a swath of Western states that extends from the Southwest to the Pacific Northwest, then leaps over western Canada to Alaska. If you look only at the lower portion, Nevada sits about where the buckle would be. Researchers have been aware for decades that residents of certain Western states are at greater risk of dying by their own hand — up to twice the national average in 2017.

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A Suicide Loss Survivor's Story
Turning Loss into Prevention Education so "no one has to feel like that ever again"


After suffering a suicide loss, Valery Keener didn't know how to help herself or her family. Less than two years later, she provided suicide awareness and prevention education to the students, faculty and staff at Explore Knowledge Academy. Click below to watch her story through her 2017 Senior Presentation.

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