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News and Media
While reports of death by suicide are all too frequent, we encourage
media coverage that also helps spread the word about prevention.
YSPP's Media
Guidelines offer suggestions for responsible reporting on the
issue.
Washington State News
08/05 Dept. of Health News Release: Depression in youth cause for concern
A Department of Health survey reveals that almost one third of teen-agers in Washington schools experience signs of depression. Untreated depression is one...
06/05 The Seattle Times: Students provide a light for peers' darkest hours (membership required)
He was her first true crush. The blond, blue-eyed boy who lived across the
street. Her older brother's friend. Whenever the neighborhood kids...
05/05 The Yakima Herald-Republic: Livesavers suicide prevention team helps classmates stay alive (payment required)
Alex Delgado walked into Connie Shipley's fifth-grade classroom at Tieton Intermediate School with a serious topic on his mind. The sixth-grader wanted to talk about the steps to prevent suicide...
05/05 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, P-I Opinion: Youth Suicide: Keep talking, keep living
Communication, concern and caution are some of the defenses against youth suicide. As a powerful story by the Post-Intelligencer's Claudia Rowe detailed Monday, many people on the Eastside are in pain after three teenagers committed suicide earlier in the year. It's every parent's and friend's nightmare...
05/05 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Firearms should be locked up, experts say
More than half the young people who commit suicide use firearms. Jason Levy bought a .12-gauge shotgun soon after turning 18 and killed himself with it before his next birthday. Tom Crook, 16, used a hunting rifle given to him by his father...
05/05 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Eastside stunned by three teenagers' deaths
The computer in Tom Crook's bedroom has remained on, flickering continuously since the 16-year-old Issaquah high school student killed himself in March. Crook's parents leave it that way so their son's friends can keep talking to him through the keyboard, and each week the entries grow...
04/05 The Mercer Island Reporter: Teen death stuns community - School district renews suicide education, prevention efforts
Last Thursday during morning broadcast announcements, Mercer Island High School interim principal Kathy Siddoway told the student body of the death of a fellow student...
04/05 The Seattle Times: Issaquah schools grapple with suicide (membership required)
It was so lucky, how she got to see them grow. Every year, for five years of her
life, the same group of kids showed up in Robin Earl's classroom...
03/05 The Issaquah Press: 'I'd give anything for one more day'
The Crook house did not sound the same last week. Even with a steady flow of friends and relatives passing through, Thomas Crook's 7-year-old brother and sister first felt the silence. Then his parents did, too...
10/04 The Bremerton Sun: High
school team recognized for effort to prevent suicides
Nicole Cua said she was moved to join
the suicide prevention team at her school by experiences
in junior high and as a sophomore in high school...
01/04 Seattle Weekly:
One
Suicide Too Many
Radio host Cynthia Doyon was one of 207 people in King County who
took their own lives last year. It's time to recognize this is a
virtual epidemic and do something about it...
National News
08/04 The Washington Post:
FDA
Study Confirms Antidepressant Risks
Drugs Linked to More Suicides Among Children, Unpublished Analysis
Says
08/04 Well-Rounded Kids.com:
Bullying
Has Serious Effects on Girls
Girls who are bullied are more likely to feel unsafe emotionally,
according to a study by the Girl Scout Research Institute. Likewise
females are more likely to be depressed, enter into risky behaviors,
have difficulty forming friendships and experience problems in school.
Sexual
Activity in Teens Linked to Substance Abuse, Study Shows
A child's friends have a large influence on the decisions
many kids make regarding sex and drugs, a new study reveals. The
more sexually active a youngster is the more likely he or she will
smoke, drink alcohol, and use illegal drugs.
Studies
Show Families Not Spending Enough Time Together as a Family
According to data from Impulse Research more than 50% of families
spend less than 10 hours per week together as a family.
5/02 Parade Magazine:
“When A Teenager Is Sad...Pay Attention.” Up to 8 percent
of American adolescents are seriously depressed, but most parents
don't recognize the signs.
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