Facing Suicide

Understanding Suicide: Causes and Prevention

Special | 6m 15s

As researchers understand more about the causes of suicide, they learn more about prevention. Suicide has multiple risk factors that come together, and experts say it is not really ever going to be one issue that causes suicide.

Aired: 08/26/22 | Rating: TV-14

FACING SUICIDE was produced for Twin Cities PBS (TPT) & PBS by Barrat Media, 1904 Media and JWM Productions. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Support is also provided by Eleanor “Ellie” Crosby through the Crosswols Foundation, Keith and Mary Bednarowski, David and Karen Olson Family Foundation and the Peravid Foundation.

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