Suicide

Ashley Yaugher, USU Professional Practice Extension Associate Professor of Health & Wellness talks about the upcoming 2025 Elevating Hope Summit: Taking Substance Use Disorder & Suicide Prevention to New Altitudes.

Utah State University partnered with Intermountain Health and The Defensive Line to hold a panel and workshop event focused on preventing suicide.

Dr. Ryan Stolworthy, a 20+ year emergency physician, noted a 400% increase for pediatric visits to the emergency department for anxiety, depression, and suicide beteween 2015-2019. Concurrently, Esterlee Molyneux, former executive director of a family strengthening, abuse prevention and child abuse shelter, had the honor of working with children, youth, and adults who had experienced trauma. Today we’ll spotlight a new organization they founded called Paz Wellness.

Our guest today is former Cache Valley resident Bryan Burningham. We’ll talk about depression, suicide and resilience, and later in the program we’ll hear a report from UPR reporter Sariah Israelsen about suicide prevention efforts in Cache Valley.

Although suicide rates in Utah have dropped, rates in Cache County are steadily climbing.

Researchers studying suicidal thoughts and behavior among adolescents don’t usually take a machine learning approach, but that’s what BYU, Harvard, and…

A recently published study has confirmed what a lot of people have long suspected: increasing social media use is correlated to suicidal thoughts among…

Pandemic related stress can have a negative impact on mental health and many are worried this could lead to more suicides. “During these times people are…

Republican Speaker of the House Brad Wilson named reducing Utah’s suicide rate as one of his top priorities for the year in his opening session remarks…

According to Commissioner Kerry Gibson of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Utah has seen an increase in suicide and depression within the…