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Denver center tackles youth suicide crisis with new initiative
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32939
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , mental health , population , health statistics , political science , psychology , demography , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , sociology , chemistry , crystallography
As the country observed National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 5–11), a new program aimed at young people in Denver launched last week with a goal to reduce suicidality for this population. Death by suicide among Denver's youth outpaces national statistics by nearly 2‐to‐1, according to program officials at the Mental Health Center of Denver.