Teen Suicide
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Children today face many stressors unheard of years ago. |
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Drugs, peer pressure, parents insistence on success, sexual and other forms of abuse, and violent and broken homes lead some children to take their own lives. |
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In 1960, there were only 475 suicides across the nation. In 1999 the suicide rate went up to 10,000 suicides per year. |
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According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, suicide has become the sixth major cause of death among five to 14-year-old children. |
What Can Be Done?
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Creating effective programs intended to reduce problems faced by children and emphasizing opportunities for healthy, social, physical, and mental development. |
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Parents must adequately monitor their children’s behavior, whereabouts, and friends. They must reliably discipline their children’s behavior, whereabouts, and friends, but must do so neither rigidly nor severely. |
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The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention established the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act. |
Objective
1 = Provide immediate intervention and appropriate sanctions
and treatment for delinquent juveniles.
Objective 2 = Prosecute certain serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders in adult criminal court.
Objective 3 = Reduce youth involvement with guns, drugs, and gangs.
Objective 4 = Provide enhanced opportunities for children and youth.
Objective 5 = Break the cycle of violence by addressing youth victimized, abuse, and neglect.
Objective 6 = Strengthen and mobilize communities.
Objective 7 = Support the development of invocative approaches to research and evaluation
Objective 8 = Implement an aggressive public outreach campaign on effective strategies to combat juvenile violence.
