Beginning in August, the university will offer Ohio's first evidence-based suicide prevention course.
The CDC reports suicides amongst young adults ages 10 to 24 are at the highest they've been in decades.Kent State University is working to stop the stigma and start educating on how to further prevent these tragedies.The course could be the answer or at least a critical step toward bringing change, according to mental health professionals.
"Everybody has a role in suicide prevention. So, that means if you know someone if you see someone that you think might be struggling. You're not in this alone," Tony Coder, Executive Director of the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, said. "The idea behind this class and the idea behind a lot of the suicide prevention efforts that were involved in is to figure out ways to get more and more people who work in more professions and more types of settings," Butler said.
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