Suicide

Data shows teen and child suicide rates have increased in Connecticut. The Department of Children and Families will implement a pilot prevention program in five schools.

About a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles — sometimes for minor infractions.

Multiple sailors died by suicide last year while stationed on the USS George Washington, including from Connecticut. The seamen were subject to outages of electricity, heating, air conditioning, and hot water for weeks at a time, and had no access to mental health support.

”Suicide is now the second-leading cause of preventable death for children starting at age 10,” state Child Advocate Sarah Eagen said.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont encouraged residents with mental health and addiction challenges to reach out to state agencies for help during the…

The Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, says it answered 280 support calls and emails in the first four months of the…

A new U.S. Department of Defense report shows a steady increase in the number of military and veteran suicides in the last six years. A total of 541…

A well-known assemblyman from the Rochester area has committed suicide. A police officer saw Bill Nojay shoot himself near his family’s cemetery plot…