Fostering and supporting mental health, focusing on empowerment, well-being and suicide prevention

Parents can make a plan to decrease suicide risk in their teens. Here’s how.

Three months into the pandemic, a mother in Brooklyn found her daughter, Anna, throwing up in the middle of the night. Worried it was covid, she rushed the 11-year-old to the hospital, where the doctors were ready to send her home. But Anna’s mom told them she wasn’t leaving until they figured out what was wrong.