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Title	Type	Date
Webinar: Understanding the Rise in Suicide Attempts in Latina Teens The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools will sponsor a webinar May 21, 2009, to shed light on the rising trend of suicides among Latina teens.	Stories and articles	05/08/2009
Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want "Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want" was the second of three online competitions sponsored in 2007 by RWJF and Changemakers.	Grant Results Sidebars	04/17/2008
Toward Preventing Suicide in Las Vegas The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program has given Matt Wray the opportunity to pursue research with important clinical and policy implications.	Grantee profiles	02/01/2008
New Guidelines Developed to Promote Responsible Media Coverage of Suicides The University of Pennsylvania conducted research on whether media coverage of suicides encourages more suicides, disseminated newly developed guidelines for responsible media coverage and evaluated the guidelines' effectiveness.	Grant Results Reports	03/23/2007
Youth Suicide: Insights from 5 Years of Arizona Child Fatality Review Team Data In 2001, the most recent year for which statistics are available, more than 1,000 American youngsters under the age of 18 committed suicide, and perhaps 25 to 30 times as many attempted to kill themselves and failed. Those who used a gun were much more likely to... Published In: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior	Journal articles	01/01/2004
Did Televised Assisted-Suicide Improve Media Coverage of Euthanasia? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed news coverage of a videotaped assisted suicide that was shown on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" in November 1998. Jack Kevorkian, M.D., a longtime euthanasia activist, provided the videotape showing...	Grant Results Reports	12/01/2002
Resource Guide for Reporters Covers Issues of Death and Dying In 1997, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in Washington produced and disseminated a journalists' resource guide on end-of-life issues. The guide was intended to be a...	Grant Results Reports	08/01/2000
How Well Do Different Injury Prevention Strategies Work? Statistical Analysis Takes a Closer Look During 1996 and 1997, staff at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the International Society of Child and Adolescent Injury Preventiondeveloped information for a broad audience on...	Grant Results Reports	02/01/1999