Denver, Colo., Jun 7, 2019 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- When the Netflix series ‘13 Reasons Why’, which features teen suicide, first aired in 2017, mental health professionals expressed concerns that the show could have a contagion effect, triggering an increase in suicides among teens inspired by the show.
A new study suggests these fears were not unfounded. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, United States youth ages 10-17 had a 28.9% increase in suicide rates in young males in the month (April 2017) following the debut of the show.
“The number of deaths by suicide recorded in April 2017 was greater than the number seen in any single month during the five-year period examined by the researchers,” the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reported. Increases in suicide rates among youth were also found in the month leading up to the shows release, and through December 2017, nine months after its release.
Former students recall integration of Acadiana schools
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LEIGH GUIDRY, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
May 14, 2021
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1of11Albert Al Hayes Jr., right, a member of the St. Landry Parish School Board, speaks with Ken Richard outside a coffee shop in Eunice, La., Monday, May 3, 2021. As a 1969 graduate of Charles Drew High School, he was in the last graduating class of the all-Black high school before schools in the area were integrated. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)SCOTT CLAUSE/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Antoinette Pete and Jimmy Meche look at Crowley High School yearbooks from the early 1970s at the Acadia Parish Public Library Monday, April 26, 2021 in Crowley, La. Pete was a ninth-grader and Meche her assistant principal when the school was integrated in 1971. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)SCOTT CLAUSE/APShow MoreShow Less
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Hillsboro Chamber Of Commerce To Present Awards Friday Night The Hillsboro Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its 99th annual awards banquet Friday, May 14, at the HILCO Civic and Event Center in Itasca. The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. and include the presentation of annual awards, dinner and silent and live auctions. Tickets for this year s event are now sold out. Awards presented this year will include Citizen of the Year Mark Roden, Local Business of the Year Hill Regional Hospital, Regional Business of the Year IKO Southwest and Farm Family of the Year P&M Farms of Abbott.
‘Don’t hate; just keep your head held high’
Antoinette Chaffers’ Pete, 65, grew up in west Crowley and attended a small, all-Black Catholic school connected to her church and run by the Sisters of the Holy Ghost from San Antonio. St. Theresa Catholic Church still stands on West Third Street, but the school has long been shuttered and the sisters returned to Texas.
The youngest of eight, Pete jokes that the sisters gave her mother, a devout Catholic, a discount on tuition at the school that went up to eighth grade. Her siblings continued into Ross High School, the school afforded to Black students in Crowley during segregation.
GriefShare support group helps people overcome the loss of their loved ones
Ramona resident Jim Stearns planted 500 bulbs in memory of his late wife’s favorite flower, daffodils, along his driveway.
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When Jim Tate’s wife of 40 years passed away in March 2018, two of his daughters wasted no time in finding a resource to help their dad manage his grief.
Two days after Vicky Tate died of frontotemporal dementia and ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, Laura and Diana Tate had placed Jim Tate in GriefShare in Ramona.
“I think I learned a lot of things about grief and how to manage it,” said Tate, who has seven children and eight grandchildren. “It did help to talk to others having the same experiences.”