States Investing in Suicide Prevention Training for Schools
California Governor Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that the final state budget includes $1.7 million to fund online suicide prevention training for teachers and students.
California Governor Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that the final state budget includes $1.7 million to fund online suicide prevention training for teachers and students.
The study asked questions about mental health awareness and familiarity with Active Minds, a student-peer organization that supports student-run mental health clubs on college campuses.
More and more physicians, particularly college sports doctors, are making it standard practice to have a chaperone present during physical exams.
The university has hired an outside consulting firm to determine if any violations of Title IX occurred.
In one southern Idaho county, 27 percent of the kindergarten population did not receive childhood vaccinations in the 2016-2017 school year.
The CDC, however, also found more U.S. high school students are feeling depressed and have considered attempting suicide.
These five considerations can go a long way toward making schools safer.
The Texas high school was placed on lockdown and a tenth-grader was found dead in an empty classroom from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
One Houston middle school that has seen a 50 percent drop in out-of-school suspensions has two 35-minute sessions each week for teachers and students to discuss their feelings.
Between 2000 and 2011, there was a 71 percent increase in calls to U.S. poison control regarding improper ingestion of ADHD medications.