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November 14, 2025
Surviving Suicide Loss: Charlotte’s Story
When Stanford soccer player Katie Meyer died by suicide in 2022, 14 year old Charlotte Rosario was heartbroken. But what stayed with her...
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November 14, 2025
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Jed Foundation Announce Intent to Merge As Equals; Becoming The Nation’s Largest Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Suicide Prevention Across The Lifespan
The union of AFSP/JED leverages complementary strengths of both organizations and combined annual operating budget of approximately $75 million to drive greater impact and save more lives
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November 14, 2025
Surviving Suicide Loss: After Years of Silence A Sister Finds Her Voice
Chryss felt her chest tighten. Watching her oldest daughter walk through the double doors at her high school for the very first time,...
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November 13, 2025
Surviving Suicide Loss: One Family’s Journey Through Grief and Their Son’s Art
A couple of times a year, the Bernstein family gets together to watch Jason’s old films. “He made over 100 home movies when...
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November 13, 2025
KyleCares and JED: Helping Schools Support Student Mental Health Across New England
Kyle’s parents would never have guessed he was thinking about suicide. Yes, he’d been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder at 9 years old,...
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November 12, 2025
Finding Belonging Through Storytelling
By Rohan Satija, The Jed Foundation Youth Advocacy Coalition Texas Fellow ’25 Growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, my childhood was characterized by...
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November 12, 2025
From Hiding My Pain to Learning We Heal Together
By Juan Garcia, The Jed Foundation Youth Advocacy Coalition Texas Fellow ’25 For years, I felt that I was trapped by my mental...
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November 12, 2025
Choosing Myself Over the Version I Pretended to Be
By Ivanna Sintes, The Jed Foundation Youth Advocacy Coalition Texas Fellow ’25 I was the best actress I knew, and I never even...
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November 7, 2025
Youth Voices Are Necessary to Sustain Progress in Mental Health
This fall, The Jed Foundation (JED) launched the Texas Mental Health Youth Advocacy Coalition (YAC) Fellowship Program, a paid six-week mental health advocacy...
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November 4, 2025
What You Need to Know: SNAP Benefits, Food Security, and Youth Mental Health
Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, millions of Americans are not receiving their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. This impacts many...
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October 28, 2025
The Future of Youth Mental Health in the Age of AI: Insights from JED’s 2025 Policy Summit
By Rebecca Bauer At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) and shifting policy landscapes are redefining how young people receive care, The Jed...
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October 20, 2025
How JED Helped Macaulay Honors College Make Mental Health Central to Student Success
When Dara Byrne became dean of CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College in 2022, she encountered a paradox. Some of the city’s most accomplished students...
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October 14, 2025
Faculty at Eastern Michigan University Rally Around Mental Health After a Colleague’s Loss
The loss of his son to suicide in 2022 left Ronald Flowers, a professor of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University (EMU),...
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