American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

Organized by members of San Diego’s best local bands, Be Well Fest is a benefit show for mental health issues and suicide prevention. 14 bands, art, zines, yoga and food make it the place to be on Saturday, July 29.

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A San Diego father plans to bring awareness to suicide prevention in honor of his 17 year old daughter at a June comedy show.
“Applause For A Cause” will bring people together for a night of laughs while raising money for the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention.

Applause for a Cause, which benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, will be at the Lyceum on June 21. NBC 7’s Steven Luke talks to organizer Marcel Roston.

An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly two decades, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why the rates went...

On this week’s Spotlight, San Diego’s premier progressive surf-rockers talk landscapes, musical influences and how none of them surfs. Splavender headline Casbah on Monday, April 17.