Children and Suicide

When an eighth grader took his own life in the bathroom of his middle school in Wendell, devastated and terrified parents started asking: “What can we do to prevent this?” The parents of the boy say he was bullied. The story prompted WRAL’s Dan Haggerty to sit down with parents, young people, and professionals to talk about mental health resources and to answer the question, are we doing enough?

Get Help: County-by-county guide to mental health and crisis resources in NC https://www.wral.com/20300051/

https://www.wral.com/dan-haggerty/19985463/

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