Mark Feldmeir’s congregation at St Andrew Methodist Church decided to bring suicide to the forefront by talking honestly and openly. “Getting in communication with doctors and clergy and youth groups, and just parents and teachers and mental health staff in the buildings,” Pramenko said.Īfter last year’s student deaths, Rev. To try and fight the trend, Pramenko said the community needs to rally around kids. The anonymous tip line has recently seen an increase in the number of reported suicide threats. Michael Sakas/CPR News An Arapahoe High School sticker on the back window of a car. She sent out emails with suicide prevention research, signs to be aware of, ways to to talk to one another and resources to get help. She now shares more information with students and parents. “I can also say, as a mom, would I want to know this? Do I need to know this? And often it’s yes,” Pramenko said. She now has a sophomore at the school, and that lens of being both a mom and a school leader has changed the way she communicates with the Arapahoe community. Parts of her response have evolved overtime, though. A 17-year school veteran, her experience has unfortunately prepared her for that call she made to the superintendent twice in recent weeks, and for what she had to say when she gathered the teachers. There’s a routine for Arapahoe principal Natalie Pramenko as well. “But it’s just is so heartbreaking that these kids understand there’s a routine response to this kind of thing.” “I don’t want to say they’ve become numb to it because, they were not numb at all,” Conn said. Her kids know what comes next, she said: The flowers in front of the school, the counselors in the classrooms and the tears in the hallways.
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“I wish I could say, ‘Oh yeah, I know how to deal with this now,’ but I really don’t,” Conn said. Jim Hill/CPR News Parent Mandy Conn, a parent of two students at Arapahoe High School at the CPR studios, Oct. She’s doing what she can to be there for her neighbors, her friends and her children, but she’s not really sure how to do that. Her kids weren’t close with the two students, but Conn said the community’s loss has everyone grieving and processing differently.
“She didn’t want to see empty desks in her classroom,” Conn said. She’s a senior, the same year as the two students who dies at the beginning of October. Mandy Conn, a parent of two Arapahoe students, said her daughter was especially reluctant to return to school. As teen suicide rates increase locally and nationally, many are desperate for answers. The community has struggled with a rash of recent student suicides, five in total over the last two years - four of whom went to Arapahoe. “We cannot see your pain,” he told the hundreds gathered for the memorial. The deceased teen’s father addressed the many students in the audience, pleading with them to reach out if they need help. The announcement follows two students at Arapahoe High School who took their own lives.Īt a Wednesday memorial for one of the students at the Pepsi Center in Denver, friends and family members shared a common message of hope that this doesn’t happen again. 17, 2018.Ī $2.8 million grant to help address teen mental health in Colorado is renewing attention among state officials on the subject of suicide. Michael Sakas/CPR News A woman waits to release a balloon at a memorial service at Denver's Pepsi Center for one of the Arapahoe High School students that recently died by suicide, Oct.
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