Empowering Adults to Recognize and Respond to Youth in Suicidal Distress

• By: Ali Rainone, LMSW Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• October 1st, 2020
• adults, community, fall 2020 issue, mental health, suicidal thoughts, suicide, training, youth
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The statistics regarding youth mental health are not only strikingly frightening but they point to the inexcusable reality that what is currently being done to address the problem is not working. According to the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five teens and young adults live...