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• Kids Under Pressure Innovative Therapy Using Music

  Date: September 12, 2019

  Author: Today with Hoda and Jenna

  Dr. Brette Genzel-Derman, with support from rocker Dave Grohl, developed a program to help kids cope with depression and anxiety through music. The fourth hour of TODAY spotlights one particular patient’s story, then welcomes the doctor to chat about more.

• Strong Student-Adult Relationships Can Lower Suicide Attempts in High School

  Date: September 11, 2019

  Author: Traci Pedersen

  “One of the most important predictors of lower suicide attempt rates in this study was positive youth-adult connections widely spread across the school,” said Wyman, “we have to be thinking about the broader population to make sure more students are connected to adults prepared to support them.”

• How City Benches are Encouraging Conversations about Mental Health

  Date: August 07, 2019

  Author: ABC News

  Friendship Benches began in Zimbabwe, where Dr. Dixon Chibana created the program by training grandmothers in the community to help support and listen to others.

  “They told their stories and their depression symptoms went away, their anxiety went away,” White said.

• Get Your Sleep: Episode 1

  Date: August 06, 2019

  Author: Mental Health Channel TV

  Sleep deprivation affects everything, from memory to mood to decision making. In our 36-hour No Sleep Challenge, researchers track 4 participants to see just how bad it can get. 

• We're The Teens

  Date: July 29, 2019

  Author: GMA Team

  In Oregon, mental health is something that teens talk about, think about and see on a daily basis. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 10 to 35 in Oregon.