Violence Prevention. These web pages provide an overview of suicide trends and patterns in the United States (US).
The pages present suicide data at the national level to users. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Mortality data are used to provide information on leading causes of death and suicide rates by county, age, sex and race/ethnicity. The pages also display case-fatality rates for self-harm injuries by utilizing the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) data in conjunction with NVSS mortality data. Finally, data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) provide information on suicides by associated circumstances for the 16 participating states and Youth Risk Behavior Survey System (YRBSS) data are used to illustrate prevalence of suicide thoughts, plans, and attempts among high school students in the U.S.
Cry for Help. Girls' Suicide Rates Rise Dramatically. The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked 76 percent, a disturbing sign that federal health officials say they can't fully explain.
For all young people between ages 10 to 24, the suicide rate rose 8 percent from 2003 to 2004 - the biggest single-year bump in 15 years - in what one official called "a dramatic and huge increase. " The report, based on the latest numbers available, was released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and suggests a troubling reversal in recent trends. Suicide rates had fallen by 28.5 percent since 1990 among young people. The biggest increase - about 76 percent - was in the suicide rate for 10- to 14-year-old girls. There were 94 suicides in that age group in 2004, compared to 56 in 2003. Suicide rates among older teen girls, those aged 15-19 shot up 32 percent; rates for males in that age group rose 9 percent. "In surveillance speak, this is a dramatic and huge increase," Dr. Anoka-Hennepin School District Fights Back Against Anti-Gay Bullying Claims Made In Rolling Stone Article.
A Minnesota school district is fighting back in the wake of a controversial Rolling Stone article which drew attention to its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in the wake of a rash of teen suicides in the region.
As provided by Towleroad, the statement from the Anoka-Hennepin school district reads in part: The article in Rolling Stone presents a grossly distorted portrayal of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, its schools and its communities. Three or four highly critical individuals do not represent the many quality administrators and 2,700 highly professional teachers who care deeply about our students and work each day not only to educate them, but also to keep them safe. We take action when we get reports of bullying or students using harassing language and there are consequences, up to and including expulsion. Take a look at some recent anti-LGBT bullying cases and other related news below: Eric James Borges 1 of 15. Anoka, Minnesota's War On Gay Teens: Rolling Stone. Marcus Bachmann says his clinics not anti-gay. The husband of Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann has come forward to defend his family-owned Christian counseling business against growing questions and criticism that it benefited from federal payments and tries to turn homosexuals straight.
Marcus Bachmann, who runs Bachmann & Associates Inc. out of clinics in Lake Elmo and Burnsville, said in an interview with the Star Tribune that his treatment business is not focused on converting gays to heterosexuality. He also denied that he has ever called gay people barbarians. Bachmann's comments followed several national media reports this week that featured an undercover video made by a gay advocacy group in which a counselor at Bachmann & Associates is shown practicing "reparative" therapy, a process aimed at helping a gay person become heterosexual.
In the therapy sessions, gay rights activist John Becker posed as a conflicted homosexual who wanted a conversion. A doctored recording? "I was talking in reference to children. The Teen Suicide Epidemic in Michele Bachmann's District. The first was TJ.
Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school district represented by Rep. Michele Bachmann—the latest in May—and many more students have attempted to take their lives. State public health officials have labeled the area a "suicide contagion area" because of the unusually high death rate. Some of the victims were gay, or perceived to be by their classmates, and many were reportedly bullied.
Bachmann, who began her political career as an education activist, has described gay rights as an "earthquake issue," and she and her allies have made public schools the front lines of their fight against the "homosexual agenda. " But in 2008, when Michele Johnson and her daughter, Samantha, moved from rural North Dakota into the 38,000-student Anoka-Hennepin school district, the largest in Minnesota, they had no idea they were landing on ground zero of that culture war.