Personal and professional experience combined with healthy discernment can inform suicide prevention initiatives, which emphasize society-wide knowledge, skill, and ability where it matters.

A raw and resilient personal story from Dr. Karin Hodges—of surviving trauma, swimming to safety, and choosing to dive back in to rescue others. A narrative of persistence, purpose, and systemic reform.

Assuming their basic needs are met, children are naturally emotionally contained by their environment. However, life happens—stress and challenges arise, such as loss, transgressions, or upcoming challenges—and kids will feel emotions!

Stress is neither good nor bad - it is an adaptive response to an internal or external stressor. Some stressors have use - like exercise that grows strength and fitness and meaningful schoolwork that enhances learning. Other stressors seems useless. They only tax the system for no other gain. And these can add up. Here are six causes of non-productive stress - those useless stressors in kids’ lives.