Content tagged with “youth suicide”
Former US Senator Byron Dorgan announced today the membership of the Center's Board of Advisors, an impressive group of prominent political figures, journalists, entrepreneneurs, athletes, and Native...
Tags: Byron Dorgan, Center for Native American Youth, youth suicide, Board of Advisors The New Jersey General Assembly yesterday unanimously approved a bill calling for the creation within 180 days of a statewide youth suicide prevention program.
The bill specifically includes...
Tags: youth suicide The Center for Native American Youth held a youth roundtable discussion in Scottsdale, AZ on April 14th, led by former US Senator Byron Dorgan and myself, Director Erin Bailey. The event, the first...
Tags: Byron Dorgan, Center for Native American Youth, youth suicide, youth roundtable A group of 44 organizations that make up the Mental Health Liaison Group have written a letter in support the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2011. The original act has...
Tags: youth suicide AP reports that the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2011 was introduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate. Tribes are eligible for Garrett Lee Smith grants, through which the...
Tags: lisa murkowski, youth suicide, Garrett Lee Smith Act As we mentioned last week, Senate Bill 417, the Native American Suicide Prevention bill, had passed the New Mexico legislature and was on its way to Governor Susana Martinez' desk. Yesterday,...
Tags: youth suicide, New Mexico Via the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Associated Press reports on the heartbreaking story of Chelle Rose Follette from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana, where tribal leaders last June declared a...
Tags: Center for Native American Youth, youth suicide Suicide rates among youth in general in New Mexico are at tragic levels, while those among American Indian youth are twice as high as the overall state rate. A new bill to try to make a...
Tags: youth suicide, New Mexico That's the title of a new article from Indian Country that you can read here.
Tags: Byron Dorgan, Center for Native American Youth, youth suicide 
