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  • Teen Youth Campaign
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  • Jennifer Savner Levinson, Community Outreach Facilitator for SPEAK UP recognized as one of the 50 Kansans You Should Know
  • SPEAK UP advocate honored for work
  • Listening Post
  • SPEAK UP community outreach facilitator recognized in 2019 Class of Rising Stars
  • FOX 4 reminds community ‘You Matter’ during September’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
  • Suicide Prevention: 5 People and Groups Doing Great Things to Raise Awareness
  • A mother’s wish: Speak up and show up to counter teen suicide, mental illness
  • Brought together by tragedy, metro moms join forces to help reduce stigma of mental illness 
  • Depression kills teen
  • KC Zoo’a contest to name a penguin honors late teen who loved penguins
  • Mother says she missed warning signs before teen daughters suicide
  • Attempted suicide survivor, mom offer support to Blue Springs students and parents. 
  • Mother’s loss prompts crusade to require suicide prevention training for teachers and principles 
  • Parents Hope School Training Helps Other Families Avoid Pain Of Suicide. 
  • Parents hope school training helps other families avoid pain of suicide
  • Kansas measure seeks suicide-awareness training for teachers 
  • Parents call for suicide prevention training in Kansas schools.
  • Parents of suicide victims urge Kansas lawmakers to require teacher training 
  • WDAF Fox 4 interview  Metro family who lost son to suicide forms organization to end silence, stigma surrounding mental illness
  • Speak Up Walk will gather people who want to reduce mental illness and the pain it causes
  • Speak Up walk for mental illness Boy Scouts 
  • Speak Up walk to raise awareness for mental illness 
  • Jewish Chronicle 
  • Jason story impacts changes in CAPS at Northwestern
  • What a successful university mental health program looks like
  • Group works to raise awareness to prevent KC area teen suicides
  • Family that battled to save a son with depression now hopes to spare others from the grief of suicide
  • 7 Things I want you to know about my son and suicide
  • Mother hopes to save lives by sharing story of son who took his own life
  • Walk for Jason shines spot light on mental health awareness
  • NAMI WALK 
  • Northwestern student who killed himself initially referred to CAPS waitlist
  • McCormick junior Jason Arkin dies

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