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Parenting, communication and compassion help prevent suicide
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The New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition’s Laura Harrison has some tips for talking about suicide and loss.
New Mexico In Depth (https://nmindepth.com/series/choosing-life/)
The New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition’s Laura Harrison has some tips for talking about suicide and loss.
Coloradas Mangas works to prevent suicide in Mescalero. Instead of asking for more money to help kids choose life, he asks people to care, to help, to let our children know we’re here for them.
This taboo of speaking about death is common among New Mexico’s tribal communities. Some people in and around Thoreau are pushing to change that after as many as 15 young people died by suicide in 2010.
New Mexico’s Native American youth die by suicide at a rate twice as high as that seen among people of other ethnicities. And our analysis suggests that official databases underestimate the true number of lives lost.