The Foster Care System Has a Suicide Problem. Federal Cuts Threaten To Slow Fixes. - KFF Health News Children and young adults in the U.S. foster care system suffer from mental health disorders and die by suicide at far higher rates than the general population, yet the system doesn’t uniformly screen...

Ongoing challenges to mental health access put youth in the foster care system at risk. Enhanced #SuicideScreening is a must, as it assess to #SuicideHotlines. #LQBTQIAplus youth are at particularly high risk kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"Lifetime Suicide Attempts in Otherwise Psychiatrically Healthy Individuals". Important research from Maria Oquendo, Melanie Wall, Shuai Wang, Mark Olfson, and Carlos Blanco

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Working to Prevent Suicide in Youth with Autism Learn what researchers are doing to help prevent suicide in autistic youth and young adults on the spectrum.

Learn what researchers are doing to help prevent #suicide in autistic children and adolescents.

By @SPARKforAutism @SFARIorg

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