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Students, parents and advocates press for stronger suicide‑prevention training in schools
Summary
Survivors, parents, the NAND Project and suicide‑prevention organizations urged the committee to increase frequency and scope of school suicide‑prevention training, extend training to earlier grades and strengthen postvention planning.
Multiple bills seeking to strengthen school suicide prevention drew emotional testimony from parents who lost children to suicide, young people with lived experience and organizations that provide crisis services. Representative Marcy and student advocate Brianna Hicks described the Jason Flatt law proposal (House Bill 640) and related measures that would increase the frequency of suicide…
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